Focusing on three key figures in the community, this powerful documentary explores how the crash of United Flight 93 on 9/11 effected the small Pennsylvania town of Somerset.

I was very moved by this documentary. I was especially impressed by the excellence of its editing and directing, and even more so when I realized that this film was the first long documentary of a recent film-school graduate. Every frame counted and carried its weight. The principal figure here was the local priest, who died shortly after the film was completed. His vision created a memorial chapel to the fallen of United 93, even though he had to fight the Roman Catholic bureaucracy to do it. And even though he was clearly in the last stages of fighting cancer as the film was made, it is the voice-over of his moving eulogy to the fallen that opens and closes the film.

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The need to memorialize an international tragedy... how people on the ground in Pennsylvania reacted to the crash of Flight 93 on Sept. 11.

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