Thread: September 11, 2001

An extra prayer tonight, thinking about tomorrow.

“On September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer, a passenger on the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93, tried to place a call through an air phone, but was routed to a customer service representative instead, who passed him on to supervisor Lisa Jefferson. Beamer reported that one passenger had been killed and that a flight attendant had told him that both the pilot and co-pilot had been forced from the cockpit and may have been injured. He was also on the phone when the plane made a quick and violent turn. Later, he told the operator that some of the other passengers were planning to attack the hijackers and regain control of the aircraft, after they learned about what happened at the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. According to Jefferson, Beamer's last audible words were “Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll.”

I've been watching some of the commemorative memorial services this morning on television and it saddens and infuriates me just as much 19 years later as it did on September 11, 2001.
No doubt... another day of terrible tragedy and first-responder heroism that will live forever in infamy. God Bless America.