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The article profiles U.S. National Park Service ranger Robert Franz and focuses on his work at the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the site of an airplane crash during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. It covers how Franz retells the story of United Airlines Flight 93 to visitors before detailing Franz' biography and professional career prior to becoming a park ranger.

This article describes the work of volunteers who maintain the memorial site of the crash of Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. There are 42 volunteers from around the Shanksville area who tend the site and tell visitors about the heroics on the plane when the passengers fought back against the terrorists. Most of the volunteers say that Flight 93 changed the way they viewed the world. Eventually a permanent memorial will be erected on the site.

The article offers U.S. news briefs on topics including a state order in Washington that residents boil their drinking water after samples tested positive for Escherichia coli bacteria contamination and fire damage to three buildings at the September 11, 2001 Flight 93 National Memorial Site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

The article reports on the destruction of the flag which has flown over the U.S. Capitol during the September 11, 2011 terrorist attacks, following a fire incident at the headquarter of Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

The article discusses Reverend Alphonse Mascherino, with a focus on his ailing health due to cancer and his creation of a small memorial prior to the development of the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in honor of the passengers killed on United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed when passengers wrested the plane from terrorists on September 11, 2001.

They are an extended family now, holding reunions in places that would have seemed odd 10 years 2 months ago -- Shanksville, Pa., for example, and an old fort on Staten Island, the starting line for the New York City Marathon. On Sunday, 20 members of this family will start together in the marathon -- the athletic and the not-so-athletic, heading for something as definitive as a finish line. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. -- As dusk settled over the Flight 93 National Memorial here Saturday night, a group of 70 United flight attendants in their crisp blue uniforms came to stand vigil for their five colleagues who went down with the plane on Sept. 11, 2001. The attendants had all worked together out of Newark International Airport, from which Flight 93 departed that day. They have reunited here periodically over the last decade, but like everyone else, they saw the new marble Wall of Names memorial for the first time at its unveiling on Saturday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the lack of restaurants and motels that could serve the 230,000 people expected to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

The article deals with the plan of the U.S. federal government to pay about 9.5 million U.S. dollars to purchase land for memorial. Under the plan, the Flight 93 National Memorial can be built by the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The southwestern Pennsylvania site where the plane crashed was called by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar hallowed ground.

The federal government will negotiate with landowners for one week in an effort to get property needed to build a Flight 93 memorial without using eminent domain, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said. But if no agreement is reached by June 12, the government will seize the land. The announcement came after Mr. Salazar and Senator Arlen Specter met with the owners of 500 acres in Western Pennsylvania where the hijacked plane crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article reports on the decision of the U.S. federal government not to seize the western Pennsylvania property needed to build a Flight 93 memorial. Government officials said they would renew negotiations with owners of the land. Officials previously wanted to use eminent domain to acquire the property.

Frustrated by years of negotiations over a parcel of land deemed critical for the proposed Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., a group representing the victims' families has asked President Bush to issue an executive order allowing the Interior Department simply to take it. The formal request was made in a three-page letter delivered to the president's office in December. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]