Editing United Airlines Flight 93 (section)

===Memorials===
{{Main|Flight 93 National Memorial}}
[[File:A tour of the Flight 93 National Memorial - 20.jpg|thumb|The [[Flight 93 National Memorial]]]]
[[File:4.28.12Flight93PanelS-67ByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|The [[National September&nbsp;11 Memorial]]'s South Pool<ref>[http://names.911memorial.org/#lang=en_US&page=person&id=213 Deborah Jacobs Welsh] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727095710/http://names.911memorial.org/ |date=July 27, 2013 }}. Memorial Guide: National 9/11 Memorial. Retrieved September 11, 2016.</ref>]]
A temporary memorial formed from spontaneous tributes left by visitors in the days after the attacks at the crash site.<ref name="PittTrib1">{{cite news |last=Pickels |first=Mary |title=Flight 93 memorial work set after 4th |url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_575608.html |date=July 2, 2008 |work=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |access-date=July 10, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708190917/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_575608.html |archive-date=July 8, 2008 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Foundations across the country began to raise money to fund a memorial to the victims within a month of the crash.<ref>{{cite web |title=Miami foundation backs memorial to Flight 93 victims |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011011memorial1011p5.asp |date=October 11, 2001 |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date=August 24, 2008 |archive-date=December 11, 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011211103740/http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011011memorial1011p5.asp |url-status=live}}</ref>

Two years after the attacks, federal officials formed the Flight{{spaces}}93 National Memorial Advisory Commission responsible for making design recommendations for a permanent memorial.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Secretary Norton Installs New Federal Advisory Commission for Flight 93 National Memorial |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |date=September 11, 2003 |url=http://home.nps.gov/applications/release/Detail.cfm?ID=416 |access-date=August 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116021948/http://home.nps.gov/applications/release/Detail.cfm?ID=416 |archive-date=January 16, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}</ref> A national [[Architectural design competition|design competition]] was held to create a public memorial in the Pennsylvania field where Flight{{spaces}}93 crashed. The winning design, "Crescent of Embrace", was selected out of a pool of 1,011 submissions on September 7, 2005.<ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=Flight 93 memorial design selected |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9235450 |date=September 7, 2005 |publisher=NBC News |access-date=August 24, 2008 |archive-date=March 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309113836/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9235450/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The site plan features a large crescent pathway with [[red maple]]s and [[sugar maple]]s planted along the outer arc.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ward |first=Paula |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05251/567702.stm |title=Flight 93 marker design picked |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=September 8, 2005 |access-date=August 24, 2008 |archive-date=December 10, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210050507/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05251/567702.stm |url-status=live}}</ref>

This design ran into opposition over funding, size, and appearance. [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] Congressman [[Charles Taylor (North Carolina politician)|Charles H. Taylor]] blocked $10{{spaces}}million in federal funds toward the project as he saw it as "unrealistic".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tapper |first1=Jake |first2=Michael |last2=Callahan |title=Memorial for Flight 93 Faces Opposition |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1891274 |date=April 26, 2006 |publisher=ABC News |access-date=August 24, 2008 |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309184219/https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1891274 |url-status=live}}</ref> Republican Congressional leaders later persuaded him to acquiesce to political pressure and began approving federal funds.<ref>{{cite news |last=Frankel |first=Glenn |title=The Architecture of Loss |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090700111.html |date=September 10, 2006 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 24, 2008 |archive-date=November 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110144717/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090700111.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The proposed design has also attracted critics who see Islamic symbolism in the crescent design.<ref name="NYT2">{{cite news |last=Hamill |first=Sean D |title=Critics See Symbols of Islam in Flight 93 Memorial Design |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/us/05memorial.html |date=May 5, 2008 |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 10, 2008 |archive-date=May 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513193737/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/us/05memorial.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

On August 31, 2009, an agreement was announced between the landowners and the [[National Park Service]] to allow the purchase of land for $9.5{{spaces}}million. The memorial area with a white marble Wall of Names was dedicated on September 10, 2011, the day before the 10th anniversary of the crash.<ref name=opendates/> A concrete and glass visitor center was opened on September 10, 2015 on a hill overlooking the memorial, with both the visitor center and the Wall of Names being aligned with the flight path and the final piece, the "Tower of Voices", was dedicated during a ceremony on September 9, 2018.<ref name=longroad/><ref name=npsfaqs/><ref name=npsdedtower>{{Cite news |title=September 9 Tower of Voices Dedication |publisher=National Park Service |date=September 9, 2018 |url=https://www.nps.gov/flni/planyourvisit/tower-of-voices-dedication.htm |access-date=September 17, 2018 |archive-date=September 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917143128/https://www.nps.gov/flni/planyourvisit/tower-of-voices-dedication.htm |url-status=live}}</ref>

CeeCee Lyles was one of the flight attendants on board. In 2003, a statue of Lyles was unveiled in her hometown of [[Fort Pierce, Florida]], which has since gained national recognition as one of the many monuments to the attacks.<ref>Shainman, Jon (September 11, 2013). [http://www.wptv.com/news/region-st-lucie-county/fort-pierce/cee-cee-lyles-911-flight-attendant-remembered-at-ft-pierce-ceremony "Cee Cee Lyles: 9/11 flight attendant remembered at Ft. Pierce ceremony"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016050132/http://www.wptv.com/news/region-st-lucie-county/fort-pierce/cee-cee-lyles-911-flight-attendant-remembered-at-ft-pierce-ceremony |date=October 16, 2015 }}. [[WPTV-TV]] [[West Palm Beach, Florida]].</ref> On August 9, 2007, a portion of [[U.S. Route 219 in Pennsylvania|U.S.{{spaces}}219]] in [[Somerset County, Pennsylvania|Somerset County]], near the Flight 93 National Memorial, was co-signed as the Flight 93 Memorial Highway.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wthr.com/story/6646237/to-honor-911-heroes-governor-rendell-signs-bill-designating-somerset-county-road-flight-93-memorial-highway |title=To Honor 9/11 Heroes, Governor Rendell Signs Bill Designating Somerset County Road, 'Flight 93 Memorial Highway' |date=June 12, 2007 |work=WTHR |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714221640/http://www.wthr.com/story/6646237/to-honor-911-heroes-governor-rendell-signs-bill-designating-somerset-county-road-flight-93-memorial-highway |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> At the [[National September 11 Memorial]], the names of the victims of Flight{{spaces}}93 are inscribed on Panels S-67 and S-68 at the South Pool.<ref>[http://names.911memorial.org/#lang=en_US&page=about&id=7 About: The Memorial Names Layout] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727095710/http://names.911memorial.org/ |date=July 27, 2013 }}. Memorial Guide: [[National 9/11 Memorial]]. Retrieved December 11, 2011.</ref>

On the sixteenth anniversary of the crash, [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Mike Pence]] spoke at the memorial: "Without regard to personal safety, they [the victims] rushed forward to save [our] lives{{spaces}}... I will always believe that I and many others in our nation's capital were able to go home that day and hug our families because of the courage and sacrifice of the heroes of Flight{{spaces}}93."<ref>{{cite news |title=Pence: Flight 93 passengers might have saved my life on 9/11 |url=https://www.mail.com/news/us/5505714-pence-flight-93-passengers-saved-life-911.html#.7518-stage-hero1-10 |date=September 11, 2017 |work=mail.com |access-date=September 11, 2017 |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309184156/https://www.mail.com/consentpage#.7518-stage-hero1-10 |url-status=live}}</ref>

On June 21, 2018, the remaining wreckage of Flight 93, which had been stored in shipping containers in a warehouse since the crash, was buried at the crash site in a private ceremony. Prior to the ceremony, the wreckage was hand-searched for personal effects and human remains that might have been missed in years prior.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://apnews.com/article/5ce627c6c5d4412f8c81ff40954bec6a |title=Remaining wreckage of Flight 93 is buried at memorial |website=[[Associated Press]] |date=July 9, 2018}}</ref>