Flight 93 Memorial News

Colin Powell To Speak at Flight 93 Site on 9/11
July 29, 2009 

Shanksville, PA - Former U.S. Secretary of  State Colin Powell will be the 
keynote speaker at this year's ceremony to honor the victims of Flight 93. 

The  Families of Flight 93 group announced Wednesday that Powell will 
speak at the  ceremony on Sept. 11 near Shanksville. Forty passengers 
and crew were killed when Flight 93, en route from Newark, N.J., to San 
Francisco,  crashed into a western Pennsylvania  field on Sept. 11, 2001. 

"I  look forward to coming to Shanksville to be with the families of those who 
gave  their lives on 9/11 in freedom's name," Powell, who was secretary of 
state  at the time of the attacks, said in a statement. 

The  theme of this year's ceremony is "Upon This Sacred Ground, Courage  
Remembered." Officials said more details about the ceremony would be 
released in the future. 

The crew and passengers of Flight 93 are credited with storming the 
cockpit,  preventing the hijacked plane from crashing into landmarks in 
Washington, D.C. 

A  $58 million, 2,200-acre memorial commemorating the victims and what 
happened  that day is scheduled to open on the 10th anniversary of the  
attacks.