Posted on 10/20/2001 3:08:06 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:01:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
October 20, 2001 -- Lisa Beamer yesterday sent an important message to Americans - and their officials: "We can't let ourselves be held captive by terrorism."
The young mother, pregnant with her third child, flew to San Francisco from Newark on the same flight on which her husband, Todd, perished on Sept. 11.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Too bad Congress can't follow her example.
Regards,
Have the cards, letters and donations dipped or what?
The story is bunkum, IMHO.
Would that we were adult enough to cheer our military's rightful reaction in shooting the plane down rather than musialing around in this feel-good crap the stuff of which politician's speeches are made.
Have the cards, letters and donations dipped or what?
The story is bunkum, IMHO.
Good Heavens, what's wrong with you?
She did an in-your-face to the terrorists, performed one of the most courageous feats I've seen from a young woman who just suffered major trauma, and you call it a stunt???????
sheesh
The woman flew on a plane, more than a lot of Americans are willing to do. Your response is truly disgusting; the husband of that woman died trying to prevent it from being crashed into the White House or Capitol building, she is pregnant with her dead husbands child and she flew to make a statement that she was not afraid and no one else should be.
It was not a stunt. She is not asking for money. You are a fool to post those kinds of spiteful comments.
You deserve every flame you get, if this isn't pulled.
Yes she does. A few short weeks ago I'm sure she never dreamed she would be in the spotlight like this. She's trying to make the best of a very terrible situation.
Unlike someone else on this thread, I admire her courage.
As in Stan Musialing, or do you like to invent words in the fashion you invent wild conspiracy theories, ignoring the fact that no eyewitnesses or ATC supports it?
...stuff of which politician's speeches are made.
Did you mean a politician's or politicians'? Crappy grammar does little to bolster your crappy conspiracy theory.
Have the cards, letters and donations dipped or what?
Weren't you the one who posted the NYFD funeral schedule? How would you like it if I posted that on that thread, you phony hypocrite?
Whatever is its, it ain't legal!
Concur.
As to the topic, when I read her front page story and pic in the Post yesterday, I realized that there are many of us who will stand up and be counted, regardless of personal loss and pain. Here is a simple woman, performing a simple deed, which becomes extraordinary. That is my America!
It's interesting to see how some people's minds work, (or don't).
Perhaps you consider this a stunt because that would be exactly what it was if you were in this woman's situaton and did what she did.
The venom you spew is getting tiresome.
Hey ... feel free to point out the wild conspiracy theories I don't back up with facts or direct quotes.
Where's your proof this plane was driven into the ground by passengers at a suitably remote location (and with a suspiciously lengthy debris field)?
Given the timing (and the plethora of cell phone calls) it seems highly unlikely ATC wasn't likewise aware the plane had been commandeered by terrorists.
I realize I'm stomping on the Fond Fantasies of many but I find far more terrifying the thought our military was so inept or impotent that it DID NOT shoot down this plane.
War is hell. I'm sorry if I find thin the "evidence" for this inspirational story. I've no doubt -- as do others -- folks will believe what they want to believe. Barring some hard evidence, I just am not able to go with my "gut feeling" in the same fashion.
My "gut feelings" about all sorts of folks and events have been proven dead wrong over the past six years ... particularly where the "pro-life" bona fides of some are concerned.
It's been painful and depressing, no doubt, but I prefer it to the alternative that is being taken for stooge and leaving myself perpetually in store for yet another inexplicable disappointment of one sort or another.
(Had this story not been snapped up by the speechmakers so quickly ... this guy's wife -- and mother-in-law, I think -- being one of the, if not THE, first survivors interviewed from their home Florida that evening, I probably wouldn't have been quite so sour on it from the beginning. Unlike some, I'm not quite as willing to view the press as anything but a propaganda source. The Philly plane became a triumph a little too quickly for my taste, that's all.)
The men and women the NYFD, police and EMT's lost are genuine heroes. You don't see their families getting press for starting Personal Hero Trust Funds or staging events to further underscore their ALLEGED heroic acts.
This story's hearsay at best. Though I've no doubt that it's now indelibly etched in the minds of survivors who believe the absolute best about those they lost and Americans everywhere in need of a bit of heroism by which we can claim to have stood up to the terrorists from the get-go.
I just don't buy it. Feel free to convince me otherwise. I'm listening.
I trust anyone who's got a problem with my take on this bit of hearsay will donate generously.
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