Individual services to honor the passengers and crew were held around the country and around the world. There were services for Tom Burnett in both California and Minnesota, his native satate, one for Waleska Martinez in Puerto Rico, another for Leory Homer in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, his wife's hometown. It was at the smae church where Leroy and Melodie Homer were married. In Hawaii, more than three hundred people gathered to celebrate the life of Georgine Corrigan. It was a cross section of America that died on that plane.

On september 20, Lisa Beamer travled to Washington, DC, to attend President Bush's nationally televised address to a joint session of congress. The president paid tribute to her husband and his heroic actions nine days earlier at the top of his speech:

"In the normal course of events, presidents come to this chamber to report on the stgate of the union. Tonight, no such report is needed. It has already been delivered by the American People. We have seen it in the courage of passengers, who rushed terrorists to wave others on the ground, passengers like an exceptional man named Todd Beamer."

President Bush then asked everyone to welcome Lisa Beamer, and to audience stood up and erupted into sympathetic applause. Family members were invited to the White House the next week to meet privately with the president. There were interviews and speeches and TV specials about the heroes. Gordie Felt, whose brother Ed, had made the cell phone call to 9-1-1 from the back of the plane, and who had instantly become a part of the heroic record of flight 93, quickly realized that life had changed permanently for all of them. Gordie had the unimaginable task on Septemebr 11 of calling his mother to deliver the news that her oldest son was dead.

When they were searching in the debris they found the Captain's wings. And you find pictures, family pictures, and thats what made it hard. "We actually found money that was still intact. Just the outer edge of the bill or bills were charred but the rest was intact which kind of gives you an impression of intensity and the brevity of the flash that would have occurred. I can remember finding oocketbooks with family pictures in it, clothing, someones shoe."

One of the agents that was working on the sight came across remains on the first day and it was large remains and broke down crying. It was very hard for some of them to work there and find stuff like that.

Todd Mcall, rememers driving and seeing flags flying in a schoolyard. The next day, there were thank you messages, painted signs, saluting to the heroes, thank you messages to the first respionderes and his emotions were building.

He stopped at the school and stopped and talked to the principal of that school to tell her how much he and the other agents appreciated the grassroots supports, and he wanted to make sure all the students and teachers got the message. "Why dont you tell them yourself?" The principal suggested, before he knew it she handed him a microphone for the schools PA system.

"Boys and Girls, ladies and gentlemen. Im one of the FBI agents working the crash site," he said in his brief and improputu broadcast, the first synch speech of his long and distinguished career. "And all the flags and all the things that you've done that we've seen here on a daily basis... we just really appreciate it."

And with that the veteran G-man headed down the hallway, determind to get back on the road before he started choking up, until he noticed a commotion all around him.

"Dozens of kids came flooding out in the hallway." he said, startled. "They were clapping."