It’s 9/11: The memorial for Flight 93

The entrance to the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania is seen. The memorial itself sits more than two miles down the road of the former coal mine. - Photo by Josh Noel/Chicago Tribune/MCT

The countryside of 9/11: Stirring simplicity marks crash site of Flight 93 at Pennsylvania memorial.

EXACTLY one American flag flaps in the brisk, rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania breeze at the Flight 93 National Memorial, which is the same number you’ll find at most other national parks and monuments. That lone flag makes the memorial at once confounding and stoically brilliant.