The Real Story of Flight 93

NEWSWEEK ^ | 112601 | By Karen Breslau, Eleanor Clift and Evan Thomas

[SauronOfMordor]

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[cake_crumb]

"After the Flight Attendants had cooked it in the microwave, or boiled it with the carefully prepared water!! Yes, this was a tearful read, but an important one. "

Yep...one of the many places I lost it was when reading about the flight attendants filling coffee pots with boiling water - to throw on the hijackers. All of the passengers of Flight 93 deserve a hero's memorial.

[LeeMcCoy]

Thanks for the ping, Gretchen. May God continue to bless, comfort and care for the families of these heros.

[kcat]

Thank you for the post. I was so happy to read that the highjackers were fighting among themselves in the end, just as all the passengers on flight 93 were coming together.

God bless those brave, brave people and the bravery and composure of the ones who were talking to them on the phones.

[mombonn]

Thank you for posting this - I heard Fox and Friends referring to it this morning.

More prayer for the families on the way.

[Dems_R_Losers]

I will go to my grave believing that these people saved my life...I was on Capitol Hill the morning of 9/11. I have prayed for them and their families so many times since that day. I still drive by the Capitol and wonder what it would have looked like burned to the ground, with the Rotunda gone, and what our nation would have gone through with our greatest symbol of democracy in ruins. Yes, it is just a building, but I think our trauma as a country would have been far, far worse had the Capitol been destroyed along with the WTC. So I am doubly grateful to these heroes, not only for my own life but for my country to have been spared that horrible sight.

I am glad to see this article naming many more of the passengers that have not gotten as much attention as Beamer, Burnett, Bingham, and Glick. I believe they all must have rushed the cockpit together and I believe that none of them were cowards -- But I bet those hijackers were some kind of scared as they were heading into the ground knowing they had failed in their mission and would not get the 72 virgins in Paradise. Even better that those who foild their plan included WOMEN!!

I wish there were some way this article could be mass produced and distributed throughout the Muslim world. The best way to prevent another 9/11 is to get the message across to these lunatics that YOU DO NOT MESS WITH AMERICANS -- WE FIGHT!

[newgeezer]

Thank you for posting this wonderful story.

(Eleanor Clift and Evan Thomas?!?! If a stopped clock can be right twice a day, I guess even those two names can appear on a story of this caliber.)

[Doctor Freeze]

Courageous heroes. Terrorists died being hammered on the head with the American Spirit.

[Geezerette]

Just now saw this thread! Bump to the top!

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[kayak]

This is why we must NEVER FORGET!!!!!!!

[Mr. Jeeves]

Why Isn't Mecca a smoldering pile of ash, in a 110 foot deep crater, now ?? ??

Because that is exactly what Bin Laden was hoping to achieve, to start the Holy War that would follow such a reprisal.

[looscannon]

Powerful article. Eleanor Clift had a hand in writing it, amazingly. She's still a world class zero. The people on that plane were simply magnificent. Ordinary Americans, extraordinary deeds.

[Steve0113]

I also think I'd be pretty pissed off at these 4 boneheads (kindest word I can use and not get kicked off the board) that were denying me and my hubby and 3 kids a happy long life together.

Likewise -- I think my reaction would be intense anger.

[texasbluebell]

Amazingly, Todd Beamer had the same quote on his desk that Capt. John Moran (freeper BCM) carried in his wallet, the "Man in the Arena" speech by Teddy Roosevelt, as told by a friend of BCM's (on the thread below).

She (Lisa Beamer) knows she should clean some things out before the new baby arrives, but she doesn’t want to touch his stuff. It was on his desk that she found, on a folded piece of paper at the bottom of his in-box, a passage quoting Teddy Roosevelt:

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... who strives valiantly, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in worthy causes. Who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

NYFD Battalion Chief John Moran (Freeper BCM) Perishes In World Trade Center

"I just came from a memorial service for a good friend who was a Chief on the New York City Fire Department.He also happened to be a freeper. I can't begin to describe how great a guy John was and how much I'll miss him. We talked politics,history and world events all the time. And he loved you guys and told me about the web site. I think he introduced me to it with "Patton's speech to the Third Army",a truly great speech which I just reread here. He also always carried with him Teddy Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena " speech,could someone post that? So long John

72 Posted on 09/28/2001 20:29:06 PDT by freefdny"

[RonDog]

"...And there was that one nagging question.
Why had her husband, a man so attached to his cell phone that Lisa had to confiscate it when they went on vacation, not called her from the plane?
Other passengers had called home from Flight 93 to say goodbye and talk to their loved ones.
Why not Todd?

THEN ON FRIDAY night, Sept. 14, she got a call from her crisis counselor at United Airlines.
Todd Beamer, it turned out, had made a call; it had been routed to an Airfone operator in Chicago.
The counselor said she had a message for Lisa, but she was worried it might be too much to handle.
“Read it to me right now,” said Lisa...

In case anyone missed one of the original "Let's Roll!" threads on FR, here is:
Let's roll,'' Flight 93 victim heard to say minutes before crash Pennsylvania field
Posted on 9/16/01 1:14 PM Pacific by jern

from
Lets Roll - Graphic Help Requested of FR's Great Graphic Talent
Posted on 09/18/2001 19:39:27 PDT by usconservative
(graphic input from Nagilum)

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[RonDog]

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[bloodmeridian]

thanks for the ping.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Remember what Howard Rosenberg wrote:

"Let's roll!" Bush ended with a bang, shrewdly adopting the reported last words of Todd Beamer, one of the passengers said to have heroically fought terrorist hijackers on the jet that crashed in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11.

Do you think, now that the words of the passengers yelling that they were going to stop the terrorists has been revealed on the black box, that Rosenberg will write in praise of their actions?

I think we should all forward this article to him so he can read it over and over and over.

[Landru]

"In the face of such bravery,I have to ask myself,do I have it in me?"

I'd bet you do; if the need arose you'd respond in like fashion.

The alternative would quickly answer all other questions.

[habs4ever]

Thank you Ron...this is a bookmark