Former Steelers running back Rocky Bleier, in conjunction with the National Park Foundation and the National Park Service, will unveil plans tomorrow for a fundraising capital campaign event that will benefit the construction of a permanent United Airlines Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, Pa.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Flight 93 -- en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco -- was hijacked and, as passengers mounted a counterattack against the hijackers, the flight crashed in a field in Stoneycreek Township, near Shanksville, in Somerset County.

Fourty-four people were killed.

The fundraising event chaired by Bleier will consist of a "9/11 We Will Never Forget" dinner Sept. 11 at Heinz Field, and there are also plans for an accompanying auction.

"I have come to feel an affinity with United Flight 93," Bleier said. "The proximity of its resting place in Shanksville puts me in constant reach of that eventful day. The story of how a group of passengers and crew overcame those hijackers continually gives me hope."