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Bush weeps for hero
On Line Sun ^ | Mon, Oct 1, 2001 | From NICK PARKER

Posted on 09/30/2001 10:20:14 PM PDT by Jewels1091

THE wife of suicide jet hero Todd Beamer told last night how President Bush wept as he comforted her with a hug. Lisa Beamer, whose husband died leading a gallant passenger fightback, had a poignant White House meeting with Mr Bush and his wife Laura last week. The president’s emotion overflowed as he paid tribute to Todd and the others who gave their lives to foil a hijackers’ attack on Washington. Pregnant mum-of-two Lisa, 32, said: “We shook hands at first. But then he hugged me and his wife did too. “His eyes filled up with tears a couple of times during the meeting — and they weren’t crocodile tears. “I know the President feels our pain. There was no hint of authority in his voice. He was just a man who cares. “It wasn’t like to talking to the world’s most powerful man, it was like talking to a friend or a neighbour.” Poignant ... widow Lisa meets President Bush But the president’s gentle words were followed by a steely pledge — to hunt down the terror bosses responsible for about 6,000 deaths. Blonde Lisa said: “The president just wanted to say thank you. “He thanked us for Todd’s actions and for our courage since it happened. “Mr Bush said it had given great encouragement to the nation. “He told me Todd and the other guys who fought back saved many more lives on the ground.” Computer executive Todd, 32, was held at knifepoint when fanatical hijackers took control of United Airlines flight 93 shortly after it took off from Newark bound for San Francisco. The maniacs killed a passenger and injured both pilots — but 6ft tall fitness fan Todd gathered a beefy gang of passengers to hit back. Their struggle ended with the plane crashing into open land in Pennsylvania, killing all on board. But they prevented it reaching its target, believed to have been the White House or Capitol building. The story of the mid-air battle unfolded after sales executive Todd called a mobile phone operator and asked her to pass on his love to his family. His now famous last words, heard over the open mobile line, were: “Are you guys ready? Let’s roll.” Brave Lisa smiled as she told how Todd would say “Let’s roll” as he gathered sons David, three, and Drew, one, for family outings. Lisa, from leafy Cranbury, New Jersey, then recalled: "September 11 started out as an ordinary day. Todd had a meeting in San Francisco and was getting the 8am flight. “He got dressed quietly to avoid waking me or the kids. "It was usually his habit to give me a little kiss on the forehead if he left when I was asleep and I’m sure that’s how he would have said goodbye.


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To: Syncro
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21 posted on 09/30/2001 11:10:54 PM PDT by america-rules
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To: Syncro
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22 posted on 09/30/2001 11:10:59 PM PDT by america-rules
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To: america-rules
LOL, yes????
23 posted on 09/30/2001 11:11:47 PM PDT by Syncro
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To: Syncro
Yes !
24 posted on 09/30/2001 11:12:55 PM PDT by america-rules
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To: Syncro
Good Read !
25 posted on 09/30/2001 11:13:21 PM PDT by america-rules
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To: TexRef
"Worth posting the whole article." Yes, thank you. This should be required reading for all students - K1-Universities.
26 posted on 09/30/2001 11:20:09 PM PDT by onyx
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To: All who really care about America and the families of those who were murdered on 9/11!
Thanks for posting this tremendous story about a brave young man, his loving wife and two precious sons who will never see their father again. Then there is the unborn child who will never see its father. Of course Todd never got to see his wife again, his two sons and never got to hold his newest baby and say, "Thank you God!"

When the scumbag left wingers start to blame Americans for this tragedy, we must remember the story of Todd and Lisa Beamer. The horrible reality of what happened to this family can be mulitiplied by about 6,000 times!

This is why we must take on the scumbags here in America like Maher, Jennings and others who try the usual left wing tricks with words to blame Americans for the mass murder of close to 6,000 innocents! That is our war. GW and our military have their war. If we lose in our war, they could lose like during the Viet Nam War!

Printout a copy of this article and have it by your desk, so when you see the scumbag newbies on this site playing their cute games, trying to blame this mass murder on innocent Americans, get mad as hell and retaliate. Take a copy with you as you do your regular things and if you run into scumbags who try to blame innocent Americans, take this article out and read to those around the scumbag.

Saturday night at our church, I took on a left wing renta priest who started blaming America for this tragedy because we were mean and selfish people. I stopped him in mid attack. He was stunned and retreated and stopped his attack and returned to the mass. I will be discussing this article with the vestry and our regular priest to insure that this clymer never returns to our church! Many people during the "Peace" thanked me or gave me the high sign. Our liberals after church scurried away from me, which was fine!

Please remember this article so that you can remember what this mass murder meant to just one of thousands of families! There is nothing funny about this as some posters would like for us to believe. When mass murderers commit a massive hate crime of murder, all of us in America have a job to do! This article shows the faces and the reality of what happened. We must never forget it!

We must tell all in America, "You are either with us or against us!" There is no in between nor fence to straddle!

Jewel thanks for posting this wonderful and very sad article.

27 posted on 09/30/2001 11:22:50 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: Jewels1091;pubmom;dalebert;america-rules
It's a glorious day, Jewels! Americans can fly-the-friendly-skies again, now, secure in the knowledge that their Pilots are well-armned, and their fellow citizens are armned as well. Truly, a safe, flying experience!

Our President, George W. Bush, told us so, and ordered all of our Pilots and Flight Attendants to be armned, just like he was, when he was in the National Guard!.

DANGED SECOND AMMENDMENT!!

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Have you figured it out yet? ....FRegards

Oh-my-god, they've got colourless, odorlous gas! What can we do???

The fun-part about this is, that Americans simply aren't gonna fly anymore, no matter how much bullshit is piled on the runways! This is my kinda shit!....

28 posted on 09/30/2001 11:30:21 PM PDT by gonzo
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To: Grampa Dave
It is of passing interest that I did a site search of the DU forums Todd M. Beamer and Flight 93 in several formats. There is not one citation or posting regarding the heroic actions of the passengers on Flight 93 nor any mention of their resistance. In addition, it appears that many posts with reference to "Flight 93" have been deleted from the forums but are still popping up in a search. It is indicative to me of the depths of their cowardice that they brook no mention of any kind of real heroism.
29 posted on 09/30/2001 11:33:03 PM PDT by 115thINTC
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To: Jewels1091
Thanks for posting.
30 posted on 09/30/2001 11:40:43 PM PDT by WIMom
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To: WIMom
bump
31 posted on 09/30/2001 11:46:24 PM PDT by SurferDoc
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To: Grampa Dave, All
Please, Grampa Dave, watch this. Video tape it and sit with your church people and watch it with them. Don't let them leave until it is finished. Give them the Todd Beamer story. Let them answer to both.

"Beneath The Veil"

32 posted on 09/30/2001 11:47:50 PM PDT by WIMom
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To: 115thINTC
It is of passing interest that I did a site search of the DU forums Todd M. Beamer and Flight 93 in several formats.

What do you expect??? It is a tried and true method of communists censoring stories of hope and truth.

Liberals (read: commies) who are using 9-11 to push their own warped agenda should be sent to Afghanistan with Jesse Jackson right before the bombing starts.

33 posted on 09/30/2001 11:50:45 PM PDT by TexRef
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To: swheats ; Jewels1091
Thank you for the ping swheats.

What a story and it makes me cry, but not only tears of sadness but tears of pride to in Americans like this.

34 posted on 10/01/2001 12:00:36 AM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: 115thINTC
You posted, "It is of passing interest that I did a site search of the DU forums Todd M. Beamer and Flight 93 in several formats. There is not one citation or posting regarding the heroic actions of the passengers on Flight 93 nor any mention of their resistance. In addition, it appears that many posts with reference to "Flight 93" have been deleted from the forums but are still popping up in a search. It is indicative to me of the depths of their cowardice that they brook no mention of any kind of real heroism."

They will never admit that Todd and the other brave souls on flight 93 were heroes. Their heroes are the same as Bill Maher, the bastards who hijacked those jets and flew them into the mass murdering of about 6,000 innocents!

Also, the left wingers love to make up some phoney victim of some miss deed by terrible mean old conservatives. Then they make a hero of the scum bag. Usually their entire premise re this scumb bag being a hero is an out and out lie or a lot fabrication. Then we see that phoney victim on tv for months and maybe a year or more! How long have we seen the beating of Rodney King, and he is still alive unlike these 6,000 mass murder victims!

They don't want us to focus on real victims of this disaster and the secondary victims their surviving family members! This article on the Beamer family and its reality scares the hell out of them so they handle it the way they have handled news that they don't want out in the light, since 1932.

They spike news like flight 93 and the Beamer story and pretend that it didn't happen/doesn't exist! That is the greatest liberal tool. CNN doesn't want to call these mass murder events, terrorism, neither does Reuters. ABC stopped showing the films of the actual event last week. CNNCBSABCNBCCSPAN and the others who manage and control the left wing extremists want this mass murder and carnage out of sight and out of mind.

We have neighbors who were in London when the mass murders of 9/11 occurred. The wife, said that what they saw even on CNN in London were horrifying with people jumping out of buildings on fire, just jumping out, and a couple that jumped out and held hands on the way down to their death. BBC showed some very vidid scenes of the dead and body parts! The left wing media did not want America to see the reality of what happened in NYC and at the Pentagon on 9/11! There were victims and parts of victims all over, around and in the wreckage. Not the sterile pictures of firemen passing a white bucket of trash down a line that we have seen since the first 12 hours after the mass murders on 9/11!

This is why they avoid the reality of the Beamers and try to use mantras like it's Americas fault, you can't call it mass murder, you can't call it treason, and you can't wear an American Flag pin if you are on tv!

We are in a cultural war for the survival of our country, and we must not lose it! If we lose this cultural war, our children and grandchildren become instant third world poverty people for their life time and the hated/despised of the world!

35 posted on 10/01/2001 12:01:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: Cagey ;Timeout, mountaineer, COB1,
I thought you would like to read this .
36 posted on 10/01/2001 12:03:22 AM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: JohnHuang2
Worthy of your BUMP list?
37 posted on 10/01/2001 12:06:22 AM PDT by onyx
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To: TexRef
Bump to Todd in heaven. Donate to a real fund like this. Make sure his new child is not left with nothing. This is the person we need to be taking care of right now today. We all sit in sorrow for the lives lost. But we must take care of the families left. President Bush will make sure of it, and so should we.

So Todd, our country and military can only do one thing for your memory now...Let's Roll.

Time to clean up the middle east NOW.

38 posted on 10/01/2001 12:13:40 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: Grampa Dave
I have a great picture that someone sent to me in an e-mail but I can't get it to post. I can forward it to someone's e-mail address for you to post if you will just Freepmail me. It's a collage of pictures of Pres. Bush praying, the WTC in the background, firefighters rescuing people and a lady with what looks like a black eye crying. It's has a beautiful verse at the bottom.
39 posted on 10/01/2001 12:19:57 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Grampa Dave
We must tell all in America, "You are either with us or against us!"
There is no in between nor fence to straddle!

You hit it right on the head as usual!
Thank You for all YOU do for our great nation!

Voice your support for President Bush in this challenging time!
40 posted on 10/01/2001 2:25:41 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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