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Miscellaneous => The Water Cooler -- General Discussions => Topic started by: R9SCarry on May 07, 2006, 10:33:49 PM
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I did post this as well on another board but thought I'd put it here too -
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I doubt if there are too many here who will be able to ever visit the Flight 93 site at Shanksville PA.
To that end let me share a few images from there, as today Mrs P95 and I biked out with some friends and a few hundred others, on a very good run, starting from a Hog Dealership in Somerset. Far from warm but still good.
A major permanent memorial is yet to be built and has been in the planning stage for ages - so for now things are a bit ''informal'' - that said there is more than enough to act as both reminder and memorial tribute too. A stiff wind made the flags really flap and so pics were tricky, plus one has a load of writing on it, with all the names of those lost - very hard to tell that.
(http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/thr/img_assd7/hrun-f93-966-s.jpg)
(http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/thr/img_assd7/hrun-gblessa-967-s.jpg)
(http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/thr/img_assd7/hrun-honorflag-978b-s.jpg)
(http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/thr/img_assd7/hrun-honorflag-980b-s.jpg)
(http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/thr/img_assd7/hrun-honorflag-983-s.jpg)
(http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/thr/img_assd7/hrun-plaque-988b-s.jpg)
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Rather than end on a somber note, let me add some levity for you! First - this was one hog that was not goin' to have room for a passenger :wink:
(http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/thr/img_assd7/hrun-big-guy-954-s.jpg)
This guy obviously has attitude LOL! Plus his mirror is held up by a nice lady!
(http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/thr/img_assd7/hrun-finger-957-s.jpg)
Finally, a biker's popular motto :smilez:
(http://www.acbsystems.com/boards/thr/img_assd7/hrun-livetoride-960-s.jpg)
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R9SCarry
Thanks for posting the pix. The wife & I will be driving to Philly from Michigan in July. On the way home, we'll be sure to stop at Shanksville.
I wish the appeasers who want us out of Iraq would stop there as well. It would remind them that some very bad people want to kill us - and we're at war to prevent a recurrence.
I can't bring myself to see the Flight 93 movie. It wouldn't be good for my blood pressure and I already know how it ends. >:(