The Veterans Breakfast Club is planning an April 19 trip to the Flight 93 Memorial and Chapel in Shanksville.

The trip, which costs $89, will include motorcoach transportation, continental breakfast and a buffet lunch at the Oakhurst Tea Room in Somerset County. 

The public is invited to join veterans of all ages, their families and friends for the event, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For information about the Flight 93 Memorial trip or to reserve a seat, contact Chris Crompton at 412-881-4100 or Todd DePastino at 412-623-9029 or todd@veteransbreakfastclub.com.

Pickup locations are as follows:     

9 a.m. at Mt. Nebo Road Park 'n Ride (Exit 68 off Interstate 79 in Ohio Township).

9 a.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 164 Fort Couch Road (across from South Hills Village).

9:30 a.m. at the Comfort Inn, 699 Rodi Road, Penn Hills.  

The Veterans Breakfast Club is a nonprofit organization that creates communities of listening around veterans and their stories.

The group meets each month at Robert Morris University's Sewall Center in Moon. A breakfast is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. April 25. Click here for more details on attending. 

"Veterans’ stories – whether they be entertaining, instructive, commemorative or healing – remind us that history is built one story at a time," according to the club's website, www.veteransbreakfastclub.com.

Have you visited the Flight 93 memorial? Tell us in the comments.

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