Unlike the last anniversary, I didn’t write anything about 9/11 this year. Why you may ask? Actually the reason is rather simple–I was busy being very sick at the time. However, while I was busy being very sick I was thinking about what I might write after I was through being sick when a little voice inside my head started asking, “So what about Flight 93, then?”. And after listening to this little voice repeating itself over and over again, my sick brain perked up and asked yeah, what about Flight 93?

Then, just to add fuel to this mental smoldering going on in my head, my lovely wife brought up the exact same question during supper the next evening. What about Flight 93? Does anyone even remember what happened on that flight?

So comes the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States of America and what do you see and hear about? On the TV, in the newspapers, on the WWW, in the magazines? The attack on the Twin Towers of the Word Trade Center (American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175) and the resulting devastation, that’s what. And rightly so as this was the most tragic and devastating of the total of 4 attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. That plus the complete destruction of such important icons and landmarks along with the tremendous loss of life completely shocked the entire country, not to mention the rest of the world as well.

But what about the others? Compared to the attack on the WTC, you barely hear about United Airlines Flight 77 that slammed into into the Pentagon shortly after the second plane hit the South Tower of the WTC. And that’s a loud shout when compared to the coverage of the crew and passengers who struggled to take control of United Airlines Flight 93 in order to keep the terrorists from driving the plane into our nations’ Capitol or the White House and ended up crashing it into a field in Stonycreek Township, near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Are these brave souls just the forgotten heros of 9/11?

I understand that big events like the attacks on the World Trade Center draw a larger viewership but I can’t subscribe to the fact that only 2 out of the 4 different attacks that occurred that sad day should receive the majority of attention.

Perhaps I’m wrong about feeling this way, but I doubt it. And perhaps those 2 latter events of 9/11 received equal coverage, but I didn’t see it anywhere. All I can say about this is when the anniversary of 9/11 comes around again, I’m going to do my best to recall all of what happened, not just what happened in New York City.