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Volunteers sign up to participate in the 10th and final tree planting at Flight 93 National Memorial on Friday, April 22, 2022.
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Russell Nee, Representing the September 11th National Memorial Trail Alliance, poses next to the 150,000 tree seedlings progress sign from the past decade on Friday, April 22, 2022.
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Dawna Bates (left), Friend of Flight 93 volunteer, and Donna Hollern, President of Friends of Flight 93, hold up the 10 T-shirts that volunteers have worn while planting seedlings on Friday, April 22, 2022.
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Volunteers trek through the mud to plant trees on Friday, April 22, 2022, at the Flight 93 National Memorial. The memorial will complete a major reforestation project this weekend fulfilling the original memorial design with 150,000 native trees.
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Volunteer Jeff Bergamasco of Butler, Pa., representing the Salvation Army, uses a dibble bar to plant seedlings at Flight 93 National Memorial on Friday, April 22, 2022.
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Volunteer Jeff Bergamasco of Butler, Pa., representing the Salvation Army, plants a tree at Flight 93 National Memorial on Friday.
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Volunteers from Metropolitan Life Tami (left) and Tracee Ragan, of Johnstown, work together to plant seedlings along a hillside at Flight 93 National Memorial on Friday, April 22, 2022.
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A volunteer plants a tree along the hillside at Flight 93 National Memorial on Friday, April 22, 2022.
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Volunteers Susan Nicholson (right) and Linda Foster both representing S & T Bank of Indiana, Pa., plant trees at Flight 93 National Memorial on Friday, April 22, 2022.
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It has been 10 years since Flight 93 National Memorial supporters, including Sharon Custer, started planting rows of seedlings into the previously strip mined soil surrounding the crash site. On Friday, the 74-year-old Central City woman was back to finish the job.
