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09-14-2001, 07:30 PM
Senators Seek Highest Honors for Hijack 'Heroes' (http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010914/pl/attack_pennsylvania_dc_1.html)
By David Morgan
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (Reuters) - The doomed passengers of a hijacked airliner that crashed near Pittsburgh could be awarded America's highest civilian honors after apparently thwarting an attack on a U.S. landmark, Pennsylvania's two U.S. senators said on Friday.
As the nation observed a day of remembrance for the victims of this week's stunning attacks on New York and Washington, Sen. Arlen Spectersaid Americans aboard the flight could be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian award.
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The senators said they believe the plane was meant for the U.S. Capitol, whose huge marble dome presents as imposing a symbol of U.S. power as the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed by two commandeered jetliners.
"There's a deep debt of gratitude. We're now looking into the Freedom Medal for those people who were on board the plane who may have saved the U.S. Capitol, and the senators and House members including the two sitting here," Specter said.
He said that the plane which crashed into the Pentagon near Washington appeared to have been intended originally for the White House.
To pay homage to the people on board the flight, the two senators brought with them a flag that had flown over the Capital to fly over the crash site where scores of search and rescue workers labored to find the cockpit voice recorder that could tell investigators exactly what happened.
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By David Morgan
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (Reuters) - The doomed passengers of a hijacked airliner that crashed near Pittsburgh could be awarded America's highest civilian honors after apparently thwarting an attack on a U.S. landmark, Pennsylvania's two U.S. senators said on Friday.
As the nation observed a day of remembrance for the victims of this week's stunning attacks on New York and Washington, Sen. Arlen Spectersaid Americans aboard the flight could be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian award.
...
The senators said they believe the plane was meant for the U.S. Capitol, whose huge marble dome presents as imposing a symbol of U.S. power as the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed by two commandeered jetliners.
"There's a deep debt of gratitude. We're now looking into the Freedom Medal for those people who were on board the plane who may have saved the U.S. Capitol, and the senators and House members including the two sitting here," Specter said.
He said that the plane which crashed into the Pentagon near Washington appeared to have been intended originally for the White House.
To pay homage to the people on board the flight, the two senators brought with them a flag that had flown over the Capital to fly over the crash site where scores of search and rescue workers labored to find the cockpit voice recorder that could tell investigators exactly what happened.
...
Click here to read more (http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010914/pl/attack_pennsylvania_dc_1.html)