A Tribute to the Heroes of Flight 93

Black Buzz News Service
Boyers, PA
September 25, 2010

A Tribute to the Heroes of Flight 93

My family and I had the great pleasure of attending the Flight 93 National Memorial Remembrance Ceremony held in Stoystown, PA on Saturday, September 11, 2010. All the speakers and choirs on the program did a superb job of setting the right tone for the sullen occasion.
Former first lady Laura Bush showed her Southern charm by giving a moving, passionate, compassionate, exhilarating tribute to the courageous passengers and flight crew aboard Flight 93.
The present first lady Michele Obama gave a captivating, inspirational and uplifting message to the Flight 93 families and others in attendance.
I was quite annoyed and highly perturbed at a handful of American citizens who chose to leave the area when first lady Michele Obama began to speak. This memorial ceremony was supposed to be the time when Americans of all political affiliations, classes, ethnicities, races, gender and age put aside their differences to honor the men and women of Flight 93. To walk out on the first lady of the United States of America was rude and disrespectful, un-American and showed a gross lack of class. I guess some people who call themselves Americans still can't get over the fact that a Black man is President and that the first lady is Black.
I also would like to commend the Slippery Rock University students who came all the way from northern Butler County to serve as volunteer traffic officers. The Slippery Rock University students and their advisers did an outstanding job of directing over 1000 motorists in and out of the parking lot in a timely orderly fashion.