9/11
September 12, 2011
Criminals.
Under federal US law, to resist a hijacking should have landed every passenger on United Flight 93 in federal prison. The law assumes the hijackers wanted ransom. No one expected they wanted to kill Americans.
But, using their credit cards for the last time, the passengers and crew called 911 and family members using AirPhones. They found out about the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. So Todd Beamer called 911 and told them they would fight back. With the words “Let’s roll” he hung up the phone and charged the cockpit. In the struggle that ensued, the passengers and crew sacrificed their own lives to save the lives of hundreds, maybe thousands, more. They made United 93 crash into a field in Pennsylvania rather than an unidentified target, possibly the Capital.
Instead of landing in prison and being villains, they landed in a Pennsylvania field and became heroes.
Never forget.
