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Posted: 9/24/2001 8:00:09 AM EDT
[url]http://www.msnbc.com/news/633033.asp[/url]

Lord, grant me the strength, courage and resolve of those that have left this world before me, for this is a hero beyond comparison!
Link Posted: 9/24/2001 8:05:15 AM EDT
[#1]
"Let's roll."
--Last words of UA Flight 93 over rural Pennsylvania, overheard by a Verizon operator.
Link Posted: 9/24/2001 8:10:23 AM EDT
[#2]
And he was not interested in reviewing his life, or whispering sweet nothings to the telephone, I assure you. He was problem solving and he was going to take care of it and come on home.
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A man. If only there were more of them in America today.
     
Link Posted: 9/24/2001 8:35:07 AM EDT
[#3]
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And he was not interested in reviewing his life, or whispering sweet nothings to the telephone, I assure you. He was problem solving and he was going to take care of it and come on home.
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A man. If only there were more of them in America today.
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You won't find them in the public schools or Universities of this country.  They are a dying breed.  People who aren't sheep are immediately labeled as troublemakers by the system, and eventually get re-educated or removed from it.  Or, like most of us, they just withdraw a little and keep to themselves.

God Bless Texas
Link Posted: 9/24/2001 8:52:04 AM EDT
[#4]
The spirit of individualism is not dead, remember the old 80/20 rule.  It is alive and well.  They also had the advantage that they knew that 2 planes hit the WTC.
Link Posted: 9/24/2001 9:18:45 AM EDT
[#5]
Tom Burnet Jr.'s name came to the front almost right away as the one who organized the re-taking of the plane. There were others, but Tom is 100% an American Hero to me. I saw dateline last night about him and he seemed like a very nice man. He deserves the MOH and his family be taken care until his daughters are out of college.
Link Posted: 9/24/2001 12:47:06 PM EDT
[#6]
One of the other guys that helped him was supposedly a huge Judo champion.......I hope he broke some Tango's bones before they bought it....

God Bless them


Bulldog Out
Link Posted: 9/24/2001 12:56:51 PM EDT
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You won't find them in the public schools or Universities of this country.  They are a dying breed.  People who aren't sheep are immediately labeled as troublemakers by the system, and eventually get re-educated or removed from it.  Or, like most of us, they just withdraw a little and keep to themselves.

God Bless Texas
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...Your response reminds me of an old quote:

"The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty -- and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies."-- H.L. Mencken, February 12, 1923, Baltimore Evening Sun
Link Posted: 9/24/2001 5:32:10 PM EDT
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[url]http://www.msnbc.com/news/633033.asp[/url]

Lord, grant me the strength, courage and resolve of those that have left this world before me, for this is a hero beyond comparison!
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DITTO!
Link Posted: 9/24/2001 5:50:17 PM EDT
[#9]
Rest in Peace Brother, Rest in Peace
Link Posted: 9/24/2001 5:56:34 PM EDT
[#10]
Do you reckon they seized control right before or right after the sidewinder missiles from the F-16 (or maybe F-15?) slammed into the wing and brought the plane down?

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