Day 3: We spent the night at Beaumont Scout Reservation near Rockport, Ohio. Beaumont is an awesome camp tucked into the Ohio woods. Our lodge was the kind of rustic that some folks spend a lot of time and money trying to emulate, and provided an excellent place for us to stay. The shower house was a welcome sight as well! Within 38 seconds of our arrival every electrical outlet had been found, noted, and had a cell phone or an I-Pod charging through it! Quite different from past Jamboree trips. We were served breakfast by the camp staff, and joined in with their Webelos for the camp's flag raising ceremony. Then it was on the road, headed to Gettysburg. We stopped in Evanston, PA, for lunch, and realized that we were within 20 miles of the Flight 93 Memorial near Shanksville.

The Memorial in place currently is only temporary. Very little is actually in place. There is still the original building where the media set up, and where the FBI ran their investigation from. This now houses a self guided tour consisting of educational placards. It is hard to describe the feelings evoked seeing the faces of the passengers and crew so close to where their plane went down. We were able to go to an overlook where we could see the actual crash site. There is a lot of excavation going on, which is part of the building of the permanent memorial, scheduled for completion on September 11, 2011. After a lecture on the site by a Ranger, we circled up and sang "America the Beautiful", and re-boarded the bus and resumed our journey to Gettysburg. We are currently camped out in the basement of Gettysburg United Methodist Church, prepared for a very full day of touring tomorrow.