2026年9月11日 / 美国东部时间晚上8:05 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
宾夕法尼亚州尚克斯维尔郊外的93号航班国家纪念园地处偏远。但每年都有超过30万人专程前来，沿着航班飞行路线徒步，驻足悼念2001年9月11日在这片田野远端遇难的40名逝者。
“得知人们特意从收费公路下来，花上几小时来了解这个故事，我们感到十分欣慰，”戈登·费尔特告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。他的41岁哥哥爱德华·费尔特就死于联合航空93号航班。
戈登·费尔特出席了周五在纪念园举行的国家公园管理局仪式，向93号航班遇难者致敬。
他哥哥的最后时刻——以及机上所有无辜乘客和机组人员的最后时刻——是一个他希望所有人都能了解的故事。
我在事发当日就报道过这个故事，当时我是被派往坠机现场的哥伦比亚广播公司新闻记者。那时，飞机为何坠毁在这个特定地点还是个谜。
25年前，就在93号航班坠毁几小时后，为解开这个谜团，我站在尚克斯维尔附近的坠机现场，手里拿着一张美国地图。
根据飞行数据，我得知飞机在俄亥俄州克利夫兰附近改变了航向。于是我画了一条从克利夫兰到尚克斯维尔的线，接着继续画出一条假设的飞行路线，终点直指华盛顿特区。
就在那时，我有了一种直觉，一种预感：就在几小时前，我头顶的天空中发生了什么事。不仅是极其糟糕的事，更是极其正义的事。
“那天好人赢了，”戈登·费尔特说，“坏人被击败了。”
我们如今通过当时乘客打给地面的电话得知，爱德华·费尔特和其他乘客与机组人员在那天早上勇敢地决定冲向驾驶舱，阻止了劫持飞机的恐怖分子将其撞向预定目标——极有可能是国会大厦。
“我想，从911事件后一路走来，我们始终抱有这样的希望：我们的国旗仍在国会大厦上空骄傲而不屈地飘扬，”戈登·费尔特说道。
保罗·皮萨诺当天就在国会大厦工作。
“如果他们没有挺身而出采取行动……不敢想象后果会有多可怕，”皮萨诺说。
周五，他站在纪念园的姓名墙前，手持帽子，在每一块刻着名字的石碑前驻足停留。
“我永远感激不尽，”皮萨诺说。
在911事件发生时，我们都在疑惑美国何时会反击，后来才知道，反击其实早已开始。
Heroes of Flight 93 remembered for their courage 25 years on from 9/11: “I can’t ever thank them enough”
September 11, 2026 / 8:05 PM EDT / CBS News
The Flight 93 National Memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, is remote. Yet every year, more than 300,000 people make the pilgrimage here to walk the flight path and stand in the presence of the 40 souls who lost their lives at the far edge of this field on Sept. 11, 2001.
“It’s gratifying for us to know that people take the time to get off the turnpike and come up and spend a few hours here to learn about the story,” Gordon Felt, who lost his 41-year-old brother Edward Felt on United Airlines Flight 93, told CBS News.
Gordon Felt attended a National Park Service ceremony Friday held at the memorial to honor the victims of Flight 93.
His brother’s final moments — and the final moments of all those innocent passengers and crew members aboard Flight 93— are a story he wants people to learn.
It is a story that I told on that first day as a CBS News reporter assigned to cover the crash. At the time, it was a mystery as to why the plane had crashed in that specific location.
Twenty-five years ago, just hours after the crash of Flight 93, in an attempt to solve that mystery, I stood in the field where the plane went down near Shanksville, holding a map of the U.S.
From flight data, I knew the plane changed course somewhere near Cleveland, Ohio. So I drew a line from Cleveland to Shanksville, and then continued a hypothetical flight path that led right to Washington, D.C.
And it was then that I got this gut feeling, like a hunch, that in the sky above me, just hours earlier, something had happened. Something not only terribly wrong, but incredibly righteous.
“The good guys won that day,” Gordon Felt said. “The bad guys were defeated.”
We now know from phone calls to the ground that Edward Felt and the rest of the passengers and crew bravely decided to storm the cockpit that morning, preventing the terrorists who had taken control of the plane from flying it to its intended target, most likely the Capitol building.
“The hope that I think we had moving forward from September 11th was our flag was still flying proudly and defiantly above the Capitol,” Gordon Felt said.
Paul Pisano was working at the Capitol building that day.
“If they hadn’t taken the action they had stood up … It’s horrific to think about,” Pisano said.
On Friday, he stood before the memorial’s Wall of Names, pausing with his hat in hand before each stone.
“I can’t ever thank them enough,” Pisano said.
On 9/11, we all wondered when America would strike back, only to learn later that we already had.