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News Regional & State News Flight 93 National Memorial needs more funding for completion
Monday, 12 September 2011 04:39

Flight 93 National Memorial needs more funding for completion

Written by  Mary Wilson

(Shanksville) -- The Flight 93 National Memorial’s first section has been opened to the public, but the memorial’s fundraisers still need ten million dollars to complete the other two parts of the planned memorial. That design includes a visitors center to tell the story of Flight 93, and a tower containing 40 wind chimes to represent the passengers and crew who fought with four terrorist hijackers to keep their plane from going into the U.S. Capitol. At the memorial’s dedication ceremony, former President Bill Clinton said he and Speaker John Boehner would volunteer to throw a bipartisan fundraiser to close the funding gap. Neil Mulholland, president of the National Park Foundation, says some of the sought-after dollars could also come from Congress. "See the federal government has a final three point seven million dollars that they’re authorized to appropriate to this memorial , uh they still need to appropriate those funds. So I think they’re going to get a lot of encouragement to finish that off, especially after today," Mulholland says. He adds he wasn’t privy to conversations between former President Clinton, former President Bush, and Speaker Boehner, but he heard that they are all ready to do "what’s proper" to complete the memorial.

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