Akron students raise money for crash memorial

Associated Press

AKRON

Students have raised $2,500 to help create a national park and monument at the Pennsylvania site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Sandra Felt, whose husband died in the crash, thanked middle school students Friday in Akron. The fifth- and sixth-graders ran laps and had other track events for pledges.

Her husband, Edward Felt, was one of the 40 passengers and crew who died when the plane crashed into a field near rural Shanksville.

A groundbreaking ceremony for a National Park Service memorial at the crash site took place in November.

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