PITTSBURGH — The Flight 93 National Memorial received more than $421,000 from the Loyal Order of the Moose and Women of the Moose, which collected donations from their lodges and chapters, as well as the profits from the sale of special neckties and scarves.

The donation was announced Monday during the organizations' annual convention in Orlando, Fla.

Since the special Flight 93 ties are still being sold — the women's scarves sold out — the final amount could exceed $450,000, said Kurt Wehrmeister, spokesman for Mooseheart, Ill.-based Moose International Inc., the umbrella organization for the groups.

"When they saw the artist's rendering for the Flight 93 Memorial, this was a project that seemed to strike a chord with our members," Wehrmeister told The Associated Press on Monday.

Patrick White, vice president of an organization of victims' relatives called Families of Flight 93, said he was "overwhelmed by (Moose members') generosity and persistence."

White's cousin, Louis "Joey" Nacke II of New Hope, Pa., was a passenger on Flight 93.

Moose members raised the money in one year, Wehrmeister said. Each lodge and chapter was asked to donate $93 — there are about 1,700 Moose lodges and 1,500 chapters of the Women of the Moose — and specially designed ties and scarves were sold for $10 each.

"What the Moose have done is incredibly generous, incredibly selfless and they did it without anyone asking them to do this," said Joanne Hanley, the National Park Service's superintendent of the Flight 93 memorial. Construction of a $58 million permanent memorial and national park is scheduled to begin by 2009.