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Nation Remembers Courage of Heroes Killed on Flight 93 on 9/11

Sailors of the amphibious transport dock (LPD) USS Arlington, LPD USS New York, and LPD USS Somerset, as well as others, attended an observance today at the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, for the heroes of United Flight 93, which crashed at 10:03 a.m., Sept. 11, 2001. The Somerset was named for the county in which Flight 93 crashed and the other two vessels were named for the locations of the other 9/11 attacks. Tower of Voices The Flight 93 National Memorial stands in a field in Shanksville, Pa. The Tower of Voices is conceived as a monumental, 93 feet tall musical instrument holding forty wind chimes, representing the forty passengers and crew members that died...