(F)LIGHT

This memorial recounts the experience of 40 people who uncovered the designs for a doomed voyage and acted to re-chart its journey. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the passengers and crew of Flight 93 gave up their own lives to save countless others. Their gesture and loss remains forever etched in the memories of their loved ones, a great nation and the world.

A violent scar on a Pennsylvanian meadow marked their journey’s end. This scar traces the horrific yet inspirational narrative that is the legacy of the passengers and crew of Flight 93. It transformed what was a common field one day into a field of honor forever.

◄ The memorial proposes a place that resonates with tragedy and absence, but also of inspiration and hope through the inscription of a luminous scar in a landscape previously defiled by mining. The memorial’s roofscape trajectory retraces the final journey of Flight 93:  its departure from Newark, New Jersey at 8:42 a.m.; its hijacking and turning point above Cleveland, Ohio between 9:35 a.m. and 9:39 a.m., its descent and final resting place in the open fields of Somerset, Pennsylvania at 10:03 a.m.