On Sept. 11, 2001, United Flight 93 crashed outside of Shanksville, Pa., instead of its likely target: the U.S. Capitol. Here's the story of Flight 93 — what happened that day, and what happened over the years to come.
A reminder, really.
In my head, I knew I should fix my gaze just above the base of each one. But I found myself slipping into an old habit. I was looking down. My eyes methodically scanned the ground — left to right, right to left, repeat.Right at the base of a towering hemlock was a jagged, twisted piece of metal. It stretched from the middle of my forearm to the tip of my middle finger.
But for nearly 70 years, 163 acres of this land belonged to my family. My grandfather bought it in the 1930s, then passed it to my dad, who passed it to me. As a child, I spent summer days in these woods, picking blackberries and fishing. Sometimes I'd check out the log cabins on the land, cabins my grandfather had built by hand.A log cabin that was built by Tim Lambert's grandfather. This area belonged to Lambert's family for nearly 70 years.
But near Shanksville, Pa., there were no looping images. There was just a burned out pit in a field and a charred line of trees.I saw the crash site up close for the first time just three weeks after United Flight 93 went down. I'd come at the invitation of the county coroner, Wally Miller. He was going to let me see a space that had been hidden from public view since the day of the attacks. When I stepped from my car into the chilly fall air, it hit me.
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