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Article: Red tape slows Flight 93 memorial in Somerset County
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- July 1, 2007
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Edwin O'Barto, of Unity, felt a wave of patriotism about three
years ago when the National Park Service and a family survivors'
group approached him about buying some of his land in Somerset
County.
The park service and the nonprofit Families of Flight 93 were
inquiring about part of the 209 acres owned by O'Barto and his wife,
Shirley, in Stonycreek Township, just south of where United Flight 93
crashed Sept. 11, 2001.
The land will become part of a $58 million memorial to honor 40
crew members and passengers who thwarted four terrorists.
"After the sacrifice the people of the flight made, you couldn't
help but feel a strong sense of patriotism. If I would have been
looking at that time ...