Teens who raise 9/11 funds visit Flight 93 field
SOMERSET — Four Ohio teenagers on a 650-mile walk to raise money for Sept. 11 memorials plan to see the Flight 93 temporary memorial near Shanksville for the first time today.
The four 17-year-old Rossford High School students — Tad Millinger, Chad Coulter, Dustin Dean and Brandon Reinhard — said 80 percent of the money they raise will go to the Ground Zero memorial in New York City and 20 percent will go to the planned $58 million Flight 93 memorial.
They set off 19 days ago from their school, followed by Millinger's father, Bruce, in a red pickup truck.
The teens will head to New York after visiting the Flight 93 site where the United Airlines plane crashed, killing all 33 passengers, seven crew and four hijackers.
The plane was en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when it was hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001. The official 9/11 Commission report said the hijackers crashed the plane as passengers tried to wrest control of the cockpit.
