SHANKSVILLE, PA - AUGUST 24: Over 25,000 items of memorabilia sit along the fence at the Flight 93 Memorial site August 24, 2006 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The memorial site overlooks the field where Flight 93 crashed on September 11, 2001 and rec FOX NEWS - Had it not been for a series of happenstances surrounding Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, the U.S.
Capitol could have easily suffered decimation and countless more lives would have been lost on that fateful day, says author and Woodrow Wilson Center Global Fellow James Reston, Jr.
In the years since 9/11, the hijacking of Flight 93 has been overshadowed by the other hijacked flights that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.