Sorry about this but ... hindsight is always 20/20 and additional attention is always welcomed when remembering loved ones. This is someone embellishing the hero.
"Sorry about this but ... hindsight is always 20/20 and additional attention is always welcomed when remembering loved ones. This is someone embellishing the hero."
Actually the sense of premonition was so strong (not only on his part - but his wife's as well) that he attempted to double their life insurance policy. He was able to double his wife's, but not his own due to a recent diagnosis of sleep apnea.
I would say that's a pretty strong premonition.
I believe there could be something to this story. I think some people have had premonitions. It's happened to me but it's been about something insignificant. Although I did have a dream once and a week later similar events with the same people in the dream happened.
I mean Spielberg waited 50 years before profiting from the Holocaust, and here we are not even 5 years after 9/11 with a multi-million dollar grossing movie exploitation.
I agree totally; this is gilding the lily and this story, no matter how sad, continues to grow, and grow and grow. After a major air crash, there are always thousands of people who claim that a "premonition" caused them to take another flight or they somehow "got stuck in traffic on the way to the airport". I remember when the Air Florida plane crashed into the Potomac River bridge, sadly killing most of the passengers and some motorists. The number of people who claimed to have "just gotten over the bridge" a few feet away was both enormous and unbelievable.
I had a dream about a cousin I hadn't seen for 6 years falling to his death. The next day he died in a parachuting accident. Then I had a dream in which my Grandfather appeared to me as a much younger man, and said he was going to leave us, but that he would always look after me. He died the next day. Both dreams were very realistic and detailed.
There are forces in the universe that can't be explained. I don't expect anyone to believe me, but I've been effected by the experiences and it has given me the faith to live life without fear.
Deena Burnett spoke about this not long after 911 happened, FWIW.
When my son was 14 I had a premonition that he would die young in a car accident. I told him and he laughed at me. He died when he was 18 1/2 in a car accident.
You said -- "Sorry about this but ... hindsight is always 20/20 and additional attention is always welcomed when remembering loved ones. This is someone embellishing the hero."
Either this happened as they described it -- or it didn't. If it did not, then you would be calling them liars -- because that's what they said they did.
If someone says to me that this is what they did, and I have no compelling reason to disbelieve it -- then I'm going to take them at their word. It does not seem to be a very big problem to take them at their word.
Or -- are you in possession of *direct information* about them -- which contradicts their story -- and are, therefore, calling them liars?
Regards,
Star Traveler
This story came out shortly after 9/11, was widely reported.