Clear Approach

A competition for a memorial to honor the passengers and crew of Flight 93 which crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on 9/11/01. Legge Lewis Legge's entry 'Clear Approach' won an honorable mention.

Above, click on competition board to download high-rez pdf.

Approach Road

Visitor Center

Visitor Center, night

The site of the crash was a decommissioned mine which is to be reclaimed as the memorial and National Park.

path from Visitor Center down to Memorial Ring

Memorial Ring, plan detail

The competition program dictated that the actual crash site, named the 'Sacred Ground', be preserved and secured from the rest of the site.

Memorial Ring, plan detail

Memorial Ring, plan detail

Memorial Ring, individual memorial (one for each passenger and crew member) from the outside, night

Memorial Ring, individual memorial from the inside, day

New Year's Eve First Night Austin crowds

Midnight!

Midnight!

Midnight!