Seventeen years after the devastating 9/11 attacks, President Donald Trump heads to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to pay tribute, as his predecessors have done, to the men and women who died aboard hijacked Flight 93. ADVERTISEMENTThose aboard United Flight 93, told over the phone by their loved ones that two other passengers jets had smashed into New York’s World Trade Center, tried to regain control of their aircraft. Tower of VoicesAmerica’s First Couple will visit the newly inaugurated Tower of Voices at the Flight 93 National Memorial — a 93-foot-tall (nearly 30-meter) monument with 40 wind chimes to represent the 40 passengers and crew killed on the flight. The cries heard in the cockpit left both jurors and those attending the hearing of the only man thus far convicted over the 9/11 attacks in shock. The 9/11 plane strikes, which destroyed the Twin Towers and left a gaping hole in the Pentagon, killed nearly 3,000 people, most of them in Manhattan.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 11, 2018 06:11 UTC