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Shanksville, borough (1990 pop. 235), in Somerset co., SW Pa., on the Stonycreek River, which is spanned by an 1881 covered bridge. Shanksville is situated in an agricultural area where corn, oats, livestock, and dairy animals are raised. During the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which destroyed the World Trade Center World Trade Center, former building complex in lower Manhattan, New York City, consisting of seven buildings and a shopping concourse on a 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site; it was destroyed by a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. ..... Click the link for more information. and damaged the Pentagon Pentagon, the, building accommodating the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Located in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., the Pentagon is a five-sided building consisting of five concentric pentagons connected to each other by corridors and covering ..... Click the link for more information. , a Boeing 757 aircraft crashed into a wooded hillside just outside of Shanksville, killing 45. Heading from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco, United Airlines Flight 93 had been taken over by Al Qaeda hijackers and flown toward Washington, D.C. It was later determined that several passengers, aware of the other attacks, had sought to overpower the hijackers, resulting in loss of control of the plane and the crash, thus saving untold lives at the unknown target. The events of that day changed Shanksville from a sleepy village to a hub for visitors to the memorial that now marks the crash site. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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daughter of Flight 93 passenger Donald Freeman Greene, places a teddy bear at the temporary memorial in Shanksville, Pa. Thus, for example, the crash of hijacked United Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 2001, taxed the responders in that and neighboring communities, but did not pull local responders from New York City, where they were needed to respond to the attacks on the World Trade Center. At least one of the designs, Inversion of Light, by Toshio Sasaki, categorized the 1993 and 2001 victims, as well as noting the civilian and non-civilian victims, as well as those who died at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa. |
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