About "Thunder on the Mountain"

There were some who came among us, who did not know what this place was or what it had become. They could not know who we are and what we had become. In those days so soon thereafter, thoughts and feelings found form in the words of an essay of exhortation, declaration, appeal, prayer and welcome. The essay, Thunder on the Mountain was written in response and in tribute to those events at Shanksville, and was printed and distributed as a greeting for those who came into the region looking for the place where Flight 93 came to earth and as a suggestion that perhaps more, much more than what they came to seek could be found here.

The impact of Flight 93 is an experience to be treasured, preserved, shared and proclaimed. In a single instant of time, at 10:06AM on September eleventh at Shanksville, Pennsylvania, time stood still. The thunder of that impact will never be silent, will never stop reverberating on our hills and on our mountains and on our hearts. Everyone who comes to see what really happened in Shanksville cannot be indifferent. They must know that Heroes came among us and changed the destiny of the world. From this quiet place, they will bring the message into their lives and hearts and homes, and the impact of that single moment in time will be an eternal message never to be forgotten, always and forever remembered: a message of bravery, sacrifice, hope, and glory of the forty brave Heroes of Flight 93 who left for us an example and a message that can never be silenced, Thunder on the Mountain.