Never forget: United Airlines Flight 93
Seven years ago, the official notification of crash of United 93 into a field at Shanksville, Pa. was received at 10:15am Eastern.
Reader Jeffrey sent me a pic and e-mail this morning: “[The photo is the] license on my Suburban. It has been (for many years) my way of remembering not only the victims of 9/11 (especially Flight 93) but that our world as we knew it changed forever that Tuesday. Today is of course is 9/11. Somehow, in the seven years since that tragic day, politics have overcome remembrance. This is a day that you are not Republican or Democrat – liberal or conservative. This is a day we are all Americans.”
The famous heroes we’ll never forget:
UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93
United Airlines Flight 93, from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California, crashed in rural southwest Pennsylvania, with 45 people on board.
CREW
Jason Dahl, 43, from Denver, Colorado, was the plane’s captain. He had a wife and son. Dahl had a lifelong interest in flying, said his aunt, Maxine Atkinson, of Waterloo, Iowa.
Leroy Homer, 36, from Marlton, New Jersey, was the first officer on board. He was married and had a daughter.
Lorraine Bay was a flight attendant.
Sandra Bradshaw, 38, of Greensboro, North Carolina, was a flight attendant.
Wanda Green was a flight attendant.
CeeCee Lyles of Fort Myers, Florida, was a flight attendant. She reached her husband, Lorne, by cell phone to tell him that she loved him and their children before the plane went down. The couple between them had four children.
Deborah Welsh was a flight attendant.
PASSENGERS
Christian Adams
Todd Beamer, 32, was from Cranbury, New Jersey.
Alan Beaven, 48, of Oakland, California, was an environmental lawyer.
Mark Bingham, 31, of San Francisco owned a public relations firm, the Bingham Group. He called his mother, Alice Hoglan, 15 minutes before the plane crashed and told her that the plane had been taken over by three men who claimed to have a bomb. Hoglan said her son told her that some passengers planned to try to regain control of the plane. “He said, ‘I love you very, very much, ‘ ” Hoglan said.
Deora Bodley, 20, of Santa Clara, California, was a university student.
Marion Britton
Thomas E. Burnett Jr., 38, of San Ramon, California, was a senior vice president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corp., a medical research and development company, and the father of three. He made four calls to his wife, Deena, from the plane. Deena Burnett said that her husband told her that one passenger had been stabbed and that “a group of us are going to do something.” He also told her that the people on board knew about the attack on the World Trade Center, apparently through other phone calls.
William Cashman
Georgine Corrigan
Joseph Deluca
Patrick Driscoll
Edward Felt, 41, was from Matawan, New Jersey.
Colleen Fraser
Andrew Garcia
Jeremy Glick, 31, from West Milford, New Jersey, called his wife, Liz, and in-laws in New York on a cell phone to tell them the plane had been hijacked, Joanne Makely, Glick’s mother-in-law, told CNN. Glick said that one of the hijackers “had a red box he said was a bomb, and one had a knife of some nature,” Makely said. Glick asked Makely if the reports about the attacks on the World Trade Center were true, and she told him they were. He left the phone for a while, returning to say, “The men voted to attack the terrorists,” Makely said.
Lauren Grandcolas of San Rafael, California, was a sales worker at Good Housekeeping magazine.
Donald F. Green, 52, was from Greenwich, Connecticut.
Linda Gronlund
Richard Guadagno, 38, of Eureka, California, was the manager of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
Toshiya Kuge
Waleska Martinez
Nicole Miller
Mark Rothenberg
Christine Snyder, 32, was from Kailua, Hawaii. She was an arborist for the Outdoor Circle and was returning from a conference in Washington. She had been married less than a year.
John Talignani
Honor Wainio
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May they rest in peace.
Indeed. Get ‘em boys.
God bless the American heroes on Flight 93.
True heros.
They are heroes, in the truest sense of the word.
Dear Whiney Dem families of those who died 7 years ago today and find it handy to use the corpse of your “loved” one,
stop blaming Dubya
stop blaming America
how are the picnics with cindy Sheham and Nick Berg’s dad?
are you still adored by the media hacks?
dem slacks don’t call so much these days?
oh well you can always call the dixie chicks surely they admire you, oops they won’t take your calls either?
such a pity
I visited the Flight 93 memorial site this summer. Here’s a video for those who haven’t seen it.
A key point to remember for the upcoming election: Flight 93 heroes embody all that is right with America.
This story is especially powerful for me. I can’t read about it without crying like a baby.
I’ve spent the morning remembering September 11, 2001 and those who died on the planes, those who died in the towers and in the Pentagon, those who lost loved ones and those who sacrificed their lives readily to save others. Michelle, thank you for listing the names and information from the flights…as I read through them, it brought me an even greater sense of patriotism. I love The United States of America and have always been proud to be an American. Knowing that Freedom is ours and that so many lives have been lost to secure that freedom, makes the remembrance of this day even more special…The world changed on this date 7 years ago…due to radical, non-freedom-loving murderers. May God continue to bless America, Land of the Free, Home of the Brave!
Mark Bingham is my hero.
Here is a memorial to flight attendant CeeCee Lyles – from someone I know, who knew CeeCee and her husband.
It is people like this we need to remember, and pray for.
The pain is still fresh and so is the pride in those fallen heroes who gave all for their country.
Thanks for the rollcall and all your posts today, Michelle.
God bless.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.
May they rest in peace.
Amen.
And may all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen
Heroes all. I will never forget them. They changed our lives forever.
I leave in an hour for a flight to see my parents. I was flying the day before 9/11 and as soon as they let us fly again after planes were grounded. There has not been a single flight I have taken since then that I don’t think of the heroes of Flight 93 and I will be thinking of them again today.
God Bless America.
I love that they voted on what to do. The ultimate in-your-face to the monster muslim terrorists. I look forward to meeting all of these heros someday over yonder. I mean that sincerely.
I wanted to write something about those people, but I cannot improve on what capitano wrote. Those few words embody all that needs to be said about them. They were our Alamo.
Here’s the latest on the memorial to Flight 93, the Crescent of Betrayal. Yes, it really appears to be a tribute to the terrorists.
These were the first people to strike back.
In case you haven’t seen it yet, you owe it to yourselves to see the movie: United 93. It is an excellent film, and although it’s very difficult to watch, both emotionally and physically, it’s worth your 2 hours to get a glimpse into the reality of terrorism and of real heroes. Sure, much of the dialogue was fictionalized because they had to fill in the gaps of information they had from cell phone conversation transcripts, but nevertheless, you will come away with a greater appreciation for the heroism of those on board, and a new resolve to make sure it NEVER happens again!
I just watched it Sat night on A&E. It was very powerful.
On Sept. 11 my son was 17 months old. I wrote him a letter that night about what it was like to experience the events of that horrible day. I felt like his generation needed to know what their parents experienced that day – it’s akin to what my parents might have felt the day JFK was shot, or what my grandparents thought/felt when Pearl Harbor was attacked. I wrote a lot about the people on Flight 93 – how brave they were and what true heroes they were to sacrifice themselves so others would live. They didn’t ask what people would do for them, they just did it. No whining, no crying. Just determination and resolve.
I’ve been trying to find the right words to say on this thread. All I can come up with is this…
If I am ever put in a position like this, my prayer is that I will have the same courage, determination, and calm that these brave men and women had.
Wow… just wow. That speaks for the whole idea of the first warriors in the fight against global terror. Our men.. OUR men…voted…and they did it.
God bless them all.
“a group of us are going to do something.”
“The men voted to attack the terrorists.”
Nothing gives me greater chills or more faith in America than these words.
My thoughts and prayers are with those who died and the families and loved ones that continue to suffer.
I stand with you today.
Another potential mother of one or more
Unseen Victims of 9/11/2001.
Whenever I think about 9/11 all the hatred I have for for liberals is renewed. They make me sick. Everytime one of them opens their filthy mouth to speak of that day all they are doing is spitting on the graves of those who died and us that loved them and our country. I actually have more respect for the terrorists than I do liberals especially the ones in our government that call themselves patriotic Americans…what a joke they are. We have a cold civil war going on within our borders right now that NEEDS to be fought and won before we can win any other war. God bless our troops. I’m Christian and I know Christians are not supposed to hate anyone but liberals make it hard. Sometime when you have the time read….Psalms 139:21-22
The actions of the people on Flight 93 reflect some of the most heroic and “bout it” actions ever in American history. They didn’t die in vain. Many Americans will follow their example if “evil shenanigans” ever happen on a plane. I thank and cherish them for showing what our fighting spirit is all about.