Article: Officials in talks to buy Somerset County, Pa., site for Sept. 11 memorial.

Byline: Kirk Swauger

Sep. 5--SHANKSVILLE, Pa. -- On the rutted, gravel road to the bucolic Flight 93 temporary memorial, past the hay bales and rolling fields, a mountain of rusting Pepsi machines shatters the serenity.

They're surrounded by tons of twisted metal, all just one-tenth of a mile away from the hallowed grounds where the hijacked jetliner crashed on Sept. 11, 2001.

Now, six days before the third anniversary of the disaster, a Somerset County scrap metals dealer says it's only a matter of time before it relinquishes its land to posterity.

Rollock Inc. executives and officials involved with creating a Flight 93 memorial agree ...

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