Flight 93 Memorial Tied Up

Paging President Bush: here is what they call a ‘high note’ to end on. The advocacy group Families of Flight 93 is lobbying for the president to seize a land parcel in order for a memorial to be erected before the 10th anniversary of the flight’s crash onto a Pennsylvania field on September 11. Svonavec Inc., owner of the 273-acre land tract holding up the memorial, rejected a $250,000 offer from the Park Service and $750,000 from the Flight 93 group, reports The Washington Post. "When Flight 93 crashed, there wasn't much left, and it created this huge debris field. What was left was our loved ones; it's a cemetery for us. We want to make sure it's not just being tramped across, and that it's protected and preserved,” said Gordon Felt, president of Families of Flight 93 and whose brother Edward died in the crash. The projected cost of the project is $56 million spread across 1,400 acres of land. A third appraisal of the land will be finished by January 5 and the president is currently reviewing the group’s request to seize the parcel by eminent domain.