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P*sses me off that the author of this article is acting as if this fairly useless bit of information somehow invalidates the actions of the passengers which it in no way does.

You're right on the money, Arkie.

And it p*sses me off as well.

There have been people who have been working to discredit this story from Day 1. The notion that ordinary people could have a positive effect by defending themselves and their country is just too dangerous to the people who want us to rely on our betters in the Government and UN to protect us from harm.

This triumphalist BS from Reuters, about how a terrorist crashed the plane, rather than a passenger in a struggle, is no information at all. As far as I'm concerned, having the terrorists crash the plane in order to avoid losing control is the functional equivalent of the plane crashing during a struggle for control. The only difference, small though it is, is that the terrorists were a bit more cowardly in this latest version of the story.

The men and women who fought back on Flight 93 were heroes. This story does nothing to contradict that fact, as much as Reuters might wish it to be so.

And in my heart I know that even as the plane went down, the heroes on board knew that they had done well, and that their struggle was ultimately successful, even as it ended in their own deaths. I can't prove it, and nobody can prove otherwise, but I know it to be true.

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A common theme in many of the articles I have surfed up in the last couple of days is that Bush lied about Flt 93- and just coincidentally Gore's moveon.org speech centered on Bush lying in huge coordinated disinformation campaigns to systematically decieve the American people.

Hmmm, such a coincidence.

Certainly huge coordinated media campaigns are possible, we are seeing one in action.