The Heroes of Flight 93

 

11 Sept 2001 ~ Through their cellphone conversations to loved ones, Jeremy Glick and fellow passengers learned about the earlier crashes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. When he called his wife, she created a conference call with a 911 dispatcher, who told them about the Manhattan tragedy.

Passenger Jeremy Glick called his wife in New Jersey with a bold plan: He and several other people on board would try to stop the terrorists, said family members. On the same plane, Thomas Burnett, a 38-year-old business executive from California and Todd Beamer, a salesman for the Oracle software company out of New Jersey were formulating a plan of attack against the hijacking terrorists.

The Moslems had already slit the throats of the stewartesses and had threatened the passengers with the same treatment if anyone disobeyed their orders to remain in their seats. "Just stay in your seats and no one will get hurt, we are going to land in Washington to make our demands".

Knowing that these were Islamic Kamikazis through cell phone calls they had made to loved ones, the brave band of American citizens composed of Protestant, Jew and Catholic men united to defeat these animals even if it meant their own death in the attempt. No one knows exactly what happened after this American Citizens Unit sprung into action but Lisa Beamer the wife of Todd remembers her husband's last words on the cell phone were "Lets roll!" And roll they did. We suspect that they beat the living hell out of the terrorists in the passenger section of the plane and on their way to take control of the cockpit the Moslem pilot crashed the plane into the ground.

Analysis of the cockpit voice recorder on United Airlines Flight 93, shows there was a "definite struggle". Investigators have disclosed that the voice recorder picked up sounds of a fight and shouts in Arabic and English. Detectives believe the passengers may have stormed the cockpit after the hijackers took control of the flight.

We must never forget the heroism that took place on flight 93, without a doubt that plane was to be piloted into the nation's capitol building. The C.F.P.A. feels that the plane that crashed into the Pentagon in Virginia passed up the obvious target of the Capitol Building because they knew that it was the appointed target for flight 93. Because of Jeremy Glick, Todd Beamer, Thomas Burnett and unknown others on that ill fated flight, our nation's Capitol was untouched in this first wave of Radical Islamic attacks against the United States of America. God bless them and may God comfort their families.