Sponsors
Hero ($501.00 & Above)
GFWC
The Woman’s Club of Erie
Presents
The Inderlied Family
WJET-TV Channel 24 and FOX 66
Leader ($251 - $500.00
American Legion Millcreek Post 773
Wolves Club of Erie, Den VIII
Erie County Government (H. O. Hirt Auditorium)
Day of Tribute to Flight 93
MAY 18, 2014
Sponsor ($126 - $250.00
Copyright Printing
Fred & Barb Inderlied
Sabella’s Catering
Sam’s Club
Wegman’s
Friend ($10 - $125.00
Evelyn Finnecy
Marion Armstrong
Samuel P. Black & Associates Insurance
Tasty Bakes
Thanks to:
First Presbyterian Church of the Covenant
Gannon University’s TKEs
Allyson Roskie, North East Grape Princess, and
Carol Dabrowski, Chaperone and Grape Queen 2005
Erie Times-News
Committee Members: Lainie Addessi, Kathy Costello,
Johanna Davis, Maggie Dupre, Clare Farrell, Janet Griffin,
Phyllis Hoffman, Joann Kaufer, Chris Krol,
Marj and Don Inderlied, Dina Reale, Trudy Sallach,
Dianne Scalzo, Char Sisson, Carol Tomczak
The Woman’s Club of Erie
259 West Sixth Street
Erie, Pennsylvania 16507
Eriewomansclub.com
H. O. Hirt Auditorium Raymond M. Blasco, M. D. Memorial Library
160 East Front Street
Erie, Pennsylvania
Mahlon Fuller
Four planes were hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001; three hit their intended
targets. The fourth, flight United 93, was en route to San Francisco, Calif.
when passengers interrupted the on-board terrorists’ plan to strike the U.S.
Capitol.
There were 40 people aboard flight United 93 who were complete
strangers to each other. In the last 35 minutes of their lives, those 40
people made 37 phone calls to their loved ones. The recordings from that
day are chilling. “Are you guys ready? Okay. Let’s roll,” Todd Beamer said.
Those were the last words heard by the operator at 9:55 a.m. At 10:03
a.m., flight United 93 crashed upside-down at 563 mph in Shanksville, less
than 20 minutes from Washington, D.C. by plane.
On Sept. 11, 2001, 2,996 people were killed in the World Trade Center, the
Pentagon and the four planes. If flight United 93 had hit its target, an
estimated 5,000 more causalities would have occurred. If flight United 93
had stayed in the air for four seconds longer, many in Shanksville fear the
plane would have crashed into the kindergarten through 12th grade school
in town, killing 500 students, faculty and administrators.
Days after Sept. 11, a temporary memorial arose on the crash site known as
“sacred ground.” The memorial has grown into a permanent memorial
since 2001 and a visitors’ center is expected to be completed by September
of next year. Also at Shanksville, the Tower of Voices, a 93-foot tall
memorial, is in the design stages. The Tower will have 40 wind chimes, one
for each victim of flight United 93.
Mahlon Fuller, Watch Supervisor of the air traffic facilities at the Pittsburgh
International Airport on September 11, watched a plane strike the South
Tower, he knew this was not an accident. “I knew we were at war or going
to war. The question was with whom.” Fuller saw that flight United 93 was
headed straight for his control tower; he called for an immediate
evacuation of the facility.
Fuller travels to spread his experience and message regarding Sept. 11. “It’s
very important to me that the generation following you learns about and
understands what happened on 9/11 and that the American people, when
they have to, will pull together and do the right thing. But if we forget that
lesson, I think as a country, we’re doomed.”
Day of Tribute to Flight 93
2:00 p.m.
H. O. Hirt Auditorium
Opening Remarks
Ashlee McGeehan, WJET-TV Channel 24
Master of Ceremonies
Welcome
Judy Santone Husted, Co-President - The Woman’s Club of Erie
Proclamation Presentation
Kathy Dahlkemper, County Executive
Jill Beck, First Assistant - Office of the Mayor
Introduction of Mahlon Fuller, Keynote Speaker
Marianne Heck, Committee Chair - The Woman’s Club of Erie
Friends of the Flight 93 National Memorial Message
Mahlon Fuller
Closing Remarks
Marianne Heck
3:30 p.m.
Wreath Laying Ceremony
Presentation of Colors
McDowell High School ROTC
Under the direction of Colonel Marriott
Mahlon Fuller, Friends of the Flight 93 National Memorial
Marci Cashman and Judy Santone Husted
Co-Presidents - The Woman’s Club of Erie
4:00 p.m.
Woman’s Club of Erie
259 West Sixth Street
Please join us for refreshments following the ceremony. Parking available
in the Church of the Covenant parking lot on Seventh & Myrtle.