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Car crashes into Medford yard New Year's Eve ... Expanded library hours begin today ... Man on parole for robbery arrested after crashing stolen truck ... Car crashes into Medford yard New Year's Eve ... Expanded library hours begin today ... Parents of Flight 93 victim say the horror never fades By Mark Freeman,Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Mark Freeman,Mail Tribune Posted Sep. 10, 2006 @ 2:00 am Updated Feb 16, 2011 at 10:48 AM By Mark Freeman,Mail Tribune Posted Sep. 10, 2006 @ 2:00 am Updated Feb 16, 2011 at 10:48 AM » Social News The overheard rumbles of jet airplanes constantly remind Jerry Guadagno how Sept. 11, 2001, an event that changed the nation, became his family's personal tragedy. The sound propels Guadagno's mind into the cabin of United Flight 93, where history remembers his son, of Eureka, Calif., as one of the passengers who helped crash the plane into a Pennsylvania field rather than allow hijackers to fly it into the White House or the Capitol. Five years later, Jerry Guadagno and his wife, Bea, remain chained to reliving the events that stole America's sense of security as quickly and violently as it took their only son, a federal refuge manager in Humboldt County. "We live this 24/7," says Guadagno, 82. "It never leaves you. I hear a plane and I relive this thing all the time. Constantly." "It's a long road, a long road," he says. "And it doesn't get any better. Ever." On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the terrorists attacks, the country pauses to remember 9/11. Services include a memorial planned Monday in Shanksville, Penn., the site where Flight 93 crashed and where the 33 passengers and seven crew members are hailed as heroes. Warned by cell phone calls that two planes had hit the World Trade Center that day and a third had pummeled the Pentagon, Flight 93's passengers and crew thwarted seven hijackers' efforts by rushing the cockpit. Family members and friends remain convinced that & 8212; a no-nonsense guy with a law-enforcement background in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service & 8212; was part of the group that stormed the cockpit during the infamous "Let's Roll" charge. "They changed the course of history, and my brother was part of that," says sister Lori Guadagno, a Florida artist. "If that plane had reached its target, everybody would be living different lives than they are now." As the closest Sept. 11 victim to Southern Oregon and the only one within the federal refuge system, has become a touchstone of sorts for a region and an agency still trying to come to grips with the post-Sept. 11 world. Plaques in Guadagno's honor dot refuges in Northern California, the Salem area and along the East Coast. He posthumously has received the Department of the Interior's Valor Award and he is memorialized at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's training headquarters in West Virginia. "A death anywhere in the agency is felt everywhere in the agency," says David Klinger, a former fish and wildlife spokesman in Portland now at the West Virginia facility. "I knew him in passing, but I think of him all the time," Klinger says. "I walk past his plaque on the way to lunch every day." The Guadagnos have gone to great lengths to get away from the overwhelming reminders of Sept. 11. They fled their native New Jersey to escape its horrific plane traffic over their suburban Trenton home and the New York media bombardment of World Trade Center stories. They now live 10 minutes away from Lori Guadagno near Jacksonville, Fla. "We did it to be closer to Lori," Jerry Guadagno says. "She's all we have now." But old sorrows have followed them south. "It's like it happened yesterday," Bea Guadagno says. Jerry Guadagno doesn't want to forget, nor let anyone forget, his son & 8212; even those who never knew Richard. Casual conversations among strangers on the golf course or the supermarket often steer to Richard, his soulful and intriguing life and his heroic death. "I like to talk about Richard," Jerry Guadagno says. "Any way I can keep him alive, I do." In life, was an adventurous renaissance man with a conviction for protecting the environment so deep that he once chided his mother for picking a wildflower. This curly-haired agent was not just some biologist with a badge. Though short and wiry with a soft smile, Guadagno exercised so intensely that he could bench-press 360 pounds. Yet he still had the dexterity to do bonsai, make stained-glass windows and dabble in taxidermy. Guadagno climbed mountains, surfed, scuba-dived, drove motorcycles and built guitars. He hunted elk, yet pampered the orchids in the same Eureka kitchen where he created gourmet meals for his fianc& 233;e. "My brother was such an interesting person who balanced all this yin and yang in his life," Lori Guadagno says. "You could tell his story to so many people in so many different generations, and they would find him fascinating." But media accounts of Flight 93 largely have overlooked Guadagno, the family says, focusing instead on other flight members. "He was a (Flight) 93 person who didn't have a cell phone that, apparently, makes him less of a story," Lori Guadagno says. Retelling the story still grants little solace to the family, whose private sorrows remain displayed in the public arena. "My personal grief is a spectacle," Lori Guadagno says. It's a historic event and it's surreal." Equally surreal is a feeling among family members that Flight 93 is fading into the background while America obsesses with New York City's losses and the images of planes striking the towers. In some of those casual conversations Jerry Guadagno has on golf courses and markets, he gets strange looks from people when he says his son died on Flight 93. "They look at you like, 'What are you talking about?'" Jerry Guadagno says. "They don't remember. "Flight 93 is the forgotten flight," he says. "You don't hear much about it. You don't hear much about the Pentagon. It's all World Trade Center." But they now sense a chance for change. "Flight 93," a critically acclaimed movie released earlier this year and now out on DVD, depicts the events of that flight. Included is Guadagno, played by actor Daniel Sauli. The Guadagnos have helped with the movie and appear in a 60-minute documentary about the making of the film. Lori Guadagno, who calls Flight 93 the "dangling appendage of the whole 9/11 story," says the film gives the events on that plane "an opportunity to be its own story." "If it's not going to be included with what happened in New York City, then at least it has its own story," she says. Flight 93 also has its own ceremony Monday. Jerry and Bea Guadagno will be at Shanksville on Monday, standing in silence in the field where Flight 93 will forever be memorialized as a national park. It's the only place the Guadagnos can stomach on a Sept. 11. "I get some kind of comfort out of being there and I think Bea does, too," Jerry Guadagno says. "This is where our son is. I'm not going to tell you it's enjoyable, but it's comfortable to be with him." Reach reporter at 776-4470, or e-mail . 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