Honoring Flight 93...By Stealing People's Land

On September 11, 2001, some passengers aboard Flight 93 fought back against hijackers, which eventually crashed the jet into a field in Pennsylvania. Their brave sacrifice saved countless others. Because of this, our government now plans to build a memorial and national park near Shanksville, PA dedicated to the passengers and crew of Flight 93. It sounds innocent enough, until you found out they are trying to use eminent domain to take land from people that don't want to give it up.

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The plan is to set aside a 2,200-acres, and spend $58 million dollars to build the national park and memorial...by the 10th anniversary of the tragedy. Of course if it's like the 9/11 memorial in New York, they'll probably take the land and won't get it built for decades.

The people who died on 9/11 had their lives taken away and they should be remembered, but is taking away someones property the way to go about remembering them? I don't think that's the way they would have wanted to be remembered. I'm sure these families will be compensated and some might be fine with that. However, for some that have grown up on that property and have family memories there, how can you put a price on that?

If the government wants to use my money to buy land off of willing people to build a memorial to Flight 93, I wouldn't really mind that much. I think it could be spent on better things, especially now that we're in an economic mess. However, I think it's a dishonor and a disgrace to force somebody off of their land just to build this thing. If they cannot get it done with people voluntarily turning over their property, then I would rather not see a memorial at all than see a memorial tarnished by the use of force by our own government to get it built.