Ridge, Thousands Mark Flight 93 Service

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. -- Tom Ridge, director of the Office of Homeland Security and former governor of Pennsylvania, was the keynote speaker at a Sept. 11 memorial service for victims of the crash of hijacked United Flight 93.

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The ceremony Wednesday began at 9:30 a.m. with a performance by the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra. Murial Borza, the 11-year-old half-sister of Flight 93 victim Deora Bodley, will ask for a minute of silence for world peace.

More than 500 people -- family members and friends of the victims of Flight 93 -- have come to the site near tiny Shanksville in Somerset County to take part in a memorial ceremony Wednesday morning.

They attended a private service Tuesday. An estimated crowd of 20,000 attended Wednesday's service.

At 10:06 a.m., at the time the plane crashed, bells tolled 40 times in remembrance of the 40 passengers and crew who died.

Later in the day, President Bush will place a wreath and meet survivors' family members during a private ceremony at the Somerset County field where the plane went down one year ago.

In Pittsburgh, Mayor Tom Murphy and Allegheny County Executive Jim Roddey are scheduled to lead a morning program -- the 2001 Remembrance Ceremony -- on the portico of the City-County Building. A highlight of the event will be a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., marking the moment that the first of the hijacked airliners struck the World Trade Center last Sept. 11.

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