Ground Breaking Ceremony Finally Kicks Off Flight 93 Memorial Construction

With the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in DC finally moving forward, that left just one endless, mired in controversy project to wait on. Fortunately, it looks like these have been good days for memorials, as ground was finally broken this weekend on the Flight 93 Memorial in rural Pennsylvania. You might recall our reporting over these last few years as the project was held up with controversy over both its crescent design (“too similar to Islamic iconography”) and if its designer, Paul Murdoch, had stolen his ideas. There had been some movement at the start this year when the National Park Service started buying land to develop the memorial space, but in the nine months since, we’d seen little momentum. Fortunately, with the 10th anniversary of September 11th right around the corner, the push in the right direction seems to have occurred, judging from this recent groundbreaking and construction beginning as soon as this week.

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