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jodywy

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,473404,00.html
Flight 93 Families Ask Bush to OK Land Seizure for Memorial
Sunday, December 28, 2008








PHILADELPHIA — Relatives of those who died aboard United Airlines Flight 93 want the Bush Administration to seize the land needed for a memorial where the plane crashed in Shanksville, Pa., in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The Families of Flight 93 sent a letter earlier this month asking President George W. Bush to empower the Secretary of the Interior to take the land in dispute from a homeowner who had been in negotiations with the National Parks Service, said Patrick White, vice president of the families' organization.

The group says ground must be broken early next year in time for a memorial to be build for the 10th anniversary of the crash in 2011.

Svonavec Inc. owns one of the last large chunks of land needed for the 2,200-acre memorial, including the area where the plane crashed Sept. 11, 2001. Svonavec's treasurer Mike Svonavec has said the park service has not done enough to negotiate a deal.

White said Svonavec has not been willing to negotiate, and called that unacceptable.

"We've certainly sought to do this within in the process, following protocol as much as we possibly can," White said Saturday. "It has gotten to the point where we fear we'll lose significant momentum.


Pennsylvania Town Where Flight 93 Crashed Looks to Tourism With Proposed $58 Million Memorial "We have an administration that has been very supportive of this effort. We just wanted to make sure the president is aware of what the circumstances are. ... We just didn't want to get lost in the shuffle."

In October, the National Park Service said it would use an independent appraiser to determine the value of 275 acres of land needed for the memorial. The NPS also said it could use eminent domain to acquire the plot if all else fails.

Construction of a $58 million permanent memorial and national park is scheduled to begin in 2009.

White, whose cousin Louis Nacke II died on Flight 93, said the group would favor Bush giving the interior secretary or director of park services the power to take the necessary steps to acquire the land before the administration leaves office in January.

He said the families understand that the outgoing president has plenty to do in his final weeks in office. But White pledged that the group would carry its fight to the Obama Administration, if needed.

"I think the rest of the family members and I feel there is no point at which we will stop," White said. "Whatever it takes. As long as it takes. Whoever it takes. To do anything less would be doing a disservice to those that we love."

Flight 93 was en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco on Sept. 11, 2001, when it was diverted by hijackers. The official 9/11 Commission report said the hijackers crashed the plane as passengers tried to wrest control of the cockpit.
 

kolanuraven

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NO

You start seizing land......then it will start a pattern of being taken for every thing else that might happen.

You want it....buy it.
 

Mrs.Greg

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:shock: No disresect meant to the families but the seizure thing bothers me alot,a plane crashes on your land and the families of the dead think its owed to them to have that chunk of land for a memorial.

Even to buy it if it means anything to the landowners...greg and I own a chunk of river land that we hope will be handed down from generation to generation.
 

jodywy

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The local historical society wanted to preserve some historical areas here so they formed a land trust. Well after a year or two they realized they didn’t have the money to hold long term easements, and one of the board members talked them into becoming a chapter of a State wide AGIRCULTURAL land trust. The arrangements were made, later got to be on both boards. We still have a guy on the local board that wrote about the Lander Trail, The buffalo soldiers, that were here, and the Stump creek salt works. He has a hard time that most all the sites are on private property and says there should be a law… Oh finally got him off the board.
 

MsSage

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White said Svonavec has not been willing to negotiate, and called that unacceptable.
Yeah what he is saying is he will not accpet the low ball offer for his land.
Saw it happen with the outerbelt in Charlotte what they did was condem the land then take it over.
What gets me is that they already have 2 THOUSAND acres is that NOT enough?
Come on
 

backhoeboogie

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Put up or shut up. Plain and simple. The land owners were victims too or did the folks not realize that having a plane crash in the middle of your farm is an inconvenience?

A car going through your fences is bad enough.
 
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