In memory of
John Talignani
1927 – 2001 Today would have been the birthday. A white rose is at the name.
- Born in
- Staten Island, New York
- Killed that day
- September 11, 2001, aged 74
- Lived in
- New Port Richey, Florida
- Aboard
- Flight 93, Passenger
- Held on
- September 11, 2001 · Shanksville
Born in Italy, raised in Brooklyn, an Army veteran of the Second World War who once owned a taxi and a pizzeria and retired after twenty years tending bar at the Palm restaurants in Manhattan. He was flying to California because his stepson had been killed and his daughter-in-law badly hurt in a car accident on their honeymoon.
How they died
Killed aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which came down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on the morning of 11 September 2001. The aircraft had left Newark forty-two minutes late, which is the only reason those aboard learned by telephone what had already happened in New York before theirs was taken. They had about thirty minutes. They voted, and they went forward at the cockpit door. The aircraft never reached what it was aimed at.
Died together
Everyone aboard United Airlines Flight 93 · 40 lost together
What people have said 1
I did not know you, but I know what was taken that day. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
S. Vincent Anthony 11 September 2026