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Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld lays a wreath at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., on March 27, 2006. A memorial is being built to commemorate the victims that lost their lives overtaking a terrorist hijacked airplane and saving the plane from continuing its mission on Sept. 11, 2001. Rumsfeld was in Shanksville to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial and then continue on to the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.

Secretary Rumsfeld lays a wreath at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93.

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld lays a wreath at the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., on March 27, 2006. A memorial is being built to commemorate the victims that lost their lives overtaking a terrorist hijacked airplane and saving the plane from continuing its mission on Sept. 11, 2001. Rumsfeld was in Shanksville to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial and then continue on to the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.

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