Knowing he was in the final hour of his life, Todd, a devout Christian, asked the operator to say the Lord’s Prayer with him. He called out on an air phone and told the operator about the hijacking, the men with knives behind the locked door in the cockpit, the pilot and copilot lying on the floor possibly dead, and the turmoil on the plane. Do what you have to do.” Jeremy Glick chose not to become a victim, but to be a hero.Ī 32 year old from New Jersey, Todd Beamer, modeled for us how we should respond in difficult times in our own lives. Our best chance is to fight these people rather than accept it!” Her words of advice back to him were brief and to the point, “Be strong. But if he’s going to crash into something, well, let’s not let that happen. Passenger Jeremy Glick, 31, on the phone with his wife Lyzbeth who was watching the Twin Towers events on their television said, “He’s going to blow us up. Learning what was happening, the passengers of Flight 93 had the opportunity to choose whether or not they would also become victims. Would they be victims as those on the other three flights or would they be heroes? Outgoing calls from passengers on Flight 93 led to their being educated as to what was happening to hijacked planes flying out of eastern airports. They did not know what was about to happen to their plane.īut the passengers of United Flight 93 had a decision to make. The pilots on flight 93 were also victims.

Who would have thought when they boarded their flights that the planes they were in would be hijacked and then made into suicide missiles. Those on board the plane that struck the Pentagon were victims. Those on board the plane that struck the South Tower were victims. Those on board the plane that struck the North Tower were victims. Today, we have the opportunity to choose to be victims or heroes. The events of September 11th created both victims and heroes. The ripples from the tragedies would sweep our entire country instantaneously covering us with a cloud of confusion, sympathy, frustration, and then anger. Before this flight would violently return to earth, not only would two other hijacked planes hit their targets, the South Tower of the World Trade Center would collapse with the North tower collapsing not far behind. In that hour and 24 minutes, our world, our country, and our lives were forever changed.

Flight 93 was in the air 1 hour and 24 minutes. It wasn’t five minutes later that American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The pilots and passengers of Flight 93 were some of the last to see the towers standing proudly. The towers stood side by side as a symbol of New York City for 29 years. As the flight banked to the west, the passengers on the right side of the plane could see the towers of the World Trade Center glimmering in the morning sun. The flight left the runway and headed northeast, towards New York City. The 37 passengers and 7 crew aboard were looking forward to arriving in San Francisco later that day.

The passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 left the Newark International Airport runway in New Jersey at 8:42 a.m. We can choose to be victims or we can choose to be heroes. We can’t change what happened, but we can choose how we respond. Just the numbers “9/11” cause an emotional stir in each of us. Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the greatest tragedy most of our nation has ever experienced. “Don’t worry,” Tom responded, “We’re going to do something.” Tom chose to not become a victim, but to be a hero. I think we can do it.Pray, Deena, just pray.” “I love you,” Deena said. Tom was a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93. I love you honey.” These were the words spoken by 38 year old Tom Burnett three thousand feet in the air over the skies of Pennsylvania on the morning of September 11th twenty years ago to his wife Deena who was having breakfast at home in California. There’s three of us who are going to do something about it.

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