SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Speaking in western Pennsylvania on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, former first lady Laura Bush says “Americans have no division.”
Bush, first lady Michelle Obama and hundreds of people gathered Saturday at memorial service in Shanksville for the victims of Flight 93, which crashed about 60 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.
Bush says that “in the face of terror, Americans chose to overcome evil.”
A moment of silence at the service was broken with relatives reading aloud the names of the 40 passengers and crew who died and a bell tolling for each one.
Flight 93 was en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco on Sept. 11, 2001, when hijackers seized control. But passengers fought back and the hijackers responded by crashing the plane.
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SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A moment of silence has been held in western Pennsylvania where hundreds are gathered to remember victims of Flight 93 on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The silence was broken Saturday morning with relatives reading aloud the names of the 40 passengers and crew who died and a bell tolling for each one.
First lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush are to speak at a service in Shanksville, Pa., at a temporary memorial near the crash site. The first phase of a permanent memorial is to be completed for the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
Flight 93 was en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco on Sept. 11, 2001, when hijackers seized control. But passengers fought back and the hijackers responded by crashing the plane about 60 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.
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Comments (51)
TMGallagher
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 11:17pmI just love Laura Bush. The Bush’s, as usual, show such class.
Report Post »Mojoron
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 9:28pmMrs. Bush and this time Mrs. Obama are great women and should be supported.
Report Post »smartypoop
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 8:19pmI think both the first ladies gave nice speeches today. I just feel a greater connection to Mrs. Bush. The warmth and compassion she exudes was very comforting today.
Report Post »dinadp
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 8:01pmI miss Laura Bush. She’s a First Lady the country can be proud of. I can’t wait for the Obamas to vacate the White House. They don‘t deserve the honor for they don’t respect the Constitution.
Report Post »libertybella58
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 7:41pmI agree that Laura Bush is a gracious and gentle-hearted american woman. The only good thing I can say about Michelle Obama today is that she had the decency to upgrade her appearance from the catalog clothes and knotty bun hairdo for today‘s honoring of our nation’s heroes. Thank you for that.
Report Post »melli50
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 5:13pmLaura Bush is a gracious and gentle-hearted American woman. I‘m sorry we didn’t appreciate her and her husband when we had them.
Report Post »Carol in MA
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 4:57pmI miss President Bush & Laura’s calming words…..they always knew just what to say. Our prayers & hearts will ALWAYS be with our fellow Americans who lost their lives on 9/11 & their families…We will NEVER forget!! God Bless America & all our brave men and women who keep us safe everyday.
Report Post »Bodysnatcher
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 3:06pmA true First Lady unlike the present sitting one.
Report Post »jrichardson
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 2:58pmI miss the class of First Lady, Laura Bush so much. You never know what you have until they are gone.
Report Post »Rapscallion
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 2:57pmI miss George W. and Laura. May God Bless you two people. You two have never wavered on 9/11 and that is a fact. You two have always stood up for the American people. Miss you two alot.
Report Post »carol m
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 2:48pmAll I can say about Mrs. Bush What a classy Lady. Can not even comment about the other one. Actually, it wasn’t fair to put both of them in the same place, Michelle had nothing
Report Post »T.JeffersonWasTheBest
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 2:22pmWe wont forget
Report Post »MOGGYONE
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 2:17pmBoth first Ladies did a very nice job of speaking. Our present first lady does not have the Bush class, but she is young. I intend to withhold my judgement on that until they leave the White House. It all depends on whether they trash it and all it‘s surroundings as the Clinton’s did, and whether they stage a trashy circus atmosphere as the Clinton’s did or if they leave quietly and with dignity as their position requires.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 1:54pmIt has been 9 years since our world changed. I see a plane and get shivers. I hear of trouble anyplace and my first thought is that it is starting again
We will NEVER forget those who gave thier lives that day and ALL those who have given thier lives since to protect us. May God Bless and keep us ALL safe from harm
Report Post »baldeagle
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 10:33pmStarting??? It has never stopped. And 9-11 was a continuation of what has been going on for centuries,,,they are just using modern weapons.
Report Post »911-WAS-AN-INSIDE-JOB-REINVESTIGATE-911
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 1:26pmDid they find any of the debris yet?
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 9:48pmYES
Report Post »They found an airplanes landing gear in the spot where they are not building the Cordoba Mosque.
Just Say NoBama
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 2:18pmFool….a plane crashes into the ground at 560 mph….what debris do you expect them to find? Guess you didn’t attend a basic physics class…and I suppose you think the moon is made out of cheese too. Get a life.
Report Post »Just Say NoBama
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 2:19pmYeah, and the moon is made out of cheese too fool. A plane hits the ground at 560 mph and you expect debris? I don’t think so. DNA of many of the passengers was found at the scene. Nice try on your foolish conspiracy theory.
Report Post »Eddies_Grandma
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 1:24pmWhen I see George or Laura Bush, it almost makes me cry, and sometimes I do. I feel like we havn’t had a President who cares for and wants the best for the American people and our country since they left. when I see the Bush’s I feel hope for us.
Report Post »diablosho
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 4:08pmI couldn’t agree with you more. I didn’t agree with everything Pres. Bush did, but at least I was PROUD to have him as my president.
Report Post »StopGovtBondage
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 1:15pmTruly this is a poignant day – a day to pay tribute to those fallen, brought down by terrorists.
And both First Ladies gave nice speeches.
But, in the spirit of keeping an eye on the Obamas – please note that it is pretty certain that Laura Bush had scheduled her visit to the PA site – long before Michelle, let them eat cake, Obama. I believe the Material Girl got on the schedule when her handlers were scrambling to put a bandaide on the vacation-gate booboo.
Thing is – no matter how hard she tries – The Bush “class” will never rub off onto the Material Girl – or her husband for that matter. Trying to steal “authencitiy” doesn’t work. And if the Obamas really want to be judged by the folks they stand next to – we have a VERY long list of socialist, marxists, communists…..and no-good, off the wall radicals….. Or where to begin….
Report Post »Beachluver
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 1:06pmI so agree with ANGELCAT. Mrs. Bush has more elegance and class and love for America in her tiny finger than the resident first lady or husband have in their entire being.!!!!!! We Will NEVER forget……we are the greatest country in the world…..God Bless America and our her patriotic citizens.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 12:53pmMrs. Bush did an outstanding job in her speech. It made me realize once again what a gracious, classy lady she was as our First Lady. Sadly, our current First Lady just doesn’t measure up to the standard set by Mrs. Bush.
Report Post »penguin
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 1:07pmI agree – it was so good to see Mrs. Bush speaking. What a gracious lady she is.
Report Post »Time_To_Stand
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 1:32pmLaura Bush is a beautiful, softspoken, first class lady. She is missed in our White House.
Report Post »Joseph
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 2:09pmYes she is a kind and classy lady. Also George, even though I dissagreed with him allot, he is a good guy to. I talked to one of his ex stafers sisters once and she said that the Bush’s always treated the staff with dignaty and respect. Also George would take the time to ask them about their work. George and Laura will go down in history for being one of he most gracious renters of the White House
Report Post »Rubicon
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 2:55pmI agree with you also. Former First Lady Mrs. Bush’s speech really felt genuine, tugging at my heart strings. I listened to our current First Lady Mrs. Obama with an open heart and mind and didn’t quite get the same heart strings tugging moment.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 3:38pmYes. I miss Mrs Bush. She was a classy 1st lady.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 4:20pmI personally miss Laura Bush…what a class act and gentle “lady”…was sorry that the video broke into our current first lady…no matter how often I see her I have to mute the sound and all that comes to mind is her remark about it being the first time she was proud of her country…sooooo….no matter that she was probably dragged to this event…by her own words EVEN 9/11 back in 2001 was NOT the moment that made her proud…sad…very sad person…
Report Post »pwintherhansen
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 10:50pmDoesn’t measure up? Based on the speeches in this video? Why? I’m hardly a fan of the current administration, but what on earth was wrong with what Michell Obama said? Seemed like a pretty poignant tribute to me.
Report Post »mrfred
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 12:48pmGuess you, (AP), flunked geography class. 60 miles southwest of Pittsburgh would be in either Ohio or West Virginia.
Report Post »The Bees
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 12:48pmWe as Americans should be ashamed that the memorial for thees Hero’s is still not built and that so much cowardly bickering has gone on to delay it.
The Hero’s of Fight 93 will never be forgotten. They were the first to stand up to these radical terrorist.
To those who have stood in the way of this Memorial being built – May God have Mercy on your Souls!
Report Post »mejeannie
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 7:43pmTwo thumbs up, Mr. Bees! I agree that that the bickering needs to STOP! I imagine the terrorists sitting around their caves and gleefully watching the in-fighting they have wreaked; the goal is met for them if we don’t decide to be as one again. One Nation (under God if y’all want, jeez) INDIVISIBLE!
Report Post »Just Say NoBama
Posted on September 13, 2010 at 2:16pmThe fact that the “Freedom Tower” and the Flight 93 memorial have not been built yet is one of the greatest tragedies to come out of the aftermath of September 11. Those towers and this memorial should have been in place on the 2nd anniversary of the attacks at the latest. The heroes of Flight 93….Beamer, Bingham, Bradshaw, Burnett, etc….they were the true heroes and sounded the first “shot” in fighting back at radical Islam….it is the great shame of our nation that they have not been officially memorialized 9 years later.
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 12:46pmThe passengers of Flight 93 fought back in the only way they could and I suspect that in doing so they spared the White house or Capital (one of them was the logical next target). I also suspect that they knew what the result would be, the odds were against them, but they did the right thing anyway.
Report Post »True heroes, true Americans.
publiusalso
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 12:43pmThe video was nice. Their remarks were poignant and gracious.
Report Post »pwintherhansen
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 10:44pmWell said, Publius.
Report Post »Values101
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 12:40pmGod bless America! Deliver Us from Evil.
Report Post »debak
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 12:34pmAmerica remembers, we shall never forget. Don’t let the liberals push this out of our History, don’t let this president undermine our values by demanding we be tolerant of others and give up our Christian Heritage to pay tribute to those who hated us enough to try and destroy our nation. May he wise up and tell the world we are largely a Christian nation, we are proud of it and we will not take a back seat in deference to Islam. My father was a Christian, my grandparents were, and as far back as I can trace my family they were Christians. We are not ashamed and while we believe in freedom of religion we do not believe in repression of our Religion of Christianity to be subserviant Islam.
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 12:47pmTell that to the Natives who have been in this land for 25 thousand years and see what type of response you will get. You need to open your mind to the bigger picture.
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 1:32pmGreat comment! Mrs. Bush was her beautiful self whith a great message. Couldn‘t bring myself to listen to the other one’s comments. This whole day was a reminder of how much America misses President Bush! He had his problems but the way he handled 911 was awesome and he took care of all of us!
Report Post »PeterBreitholtz
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 3:55pmOk. And just for the record, was Laura not smokin today? Wow!
Ken
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 5:54pmPraise to our LORD, Will he return soon?
Report Post »mejeannie
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 7:36pmI believe the aftermath of 9/11 caused not only great personal and enduring suffering to those directly affected by the WTC attack, but also great harm to the credibility of the United States and a loss of faith in the cohesion of its people. The worst possible scenario would be for the world to have made up its mind that we are now, and forever more, a country divided. You perpetuate that division. Change.
Report Post »aesaac
Posted on September 12, 2010 at 7:41amits more like 12,000 years ago
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