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Tale of bravery from fourth plane
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001 05:06:08 GMT
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I was listening to the radio tonight and heard Joe Stowell, president of
Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, speaking about a young man who was a
college classmate of his daughter and son-in-law. His name was Todd Beamer,
he was one of the passengers killed on the flight that crashed in
Pennsylvania. Actually he was more than that - he was one of four men who
rushed the terrorists before the plane crashed. After the terrorists made
themselves known, the four men knew that it was no ordinary hijacking. They
realized that if they didn't act they would die anyway, so they decided to
storm the hijackers holding seat cushions in front of themselves for
protection. After trying to call his wife, Todd called the GTE Airphone
operator to give final farewells to his family - at the end of the call the
operator heard Todd say, "Are you ready? Let's roll." Screams were heard and
a commotion ensued - 10 minutes later the plane had crashed.
Todd's wife Lisa was on "Larry King Live" last night (Tuesday). Here's a
link to the transcript:
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/18/lkl.00.html
The interview with his wife is near the end.
According to his wife one of the hijackers had a bomb around his waist -
that's the first I've heard of that.
Bill
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Tale of bravery from fourth plane
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| Todd graduated from Wheaton College, which is literally a few blocks down the road from me. He also attended Wheaton Academy, my high school. (www.wheatonacademy.org) The website has a picture of him and a paragraph as well. At Gordon College last (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Tale of bravery from fourth plane
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| "Bill Farkas" <wolfe65@msn.com> wrote in message news:GJy3I8.1C4@lugnet.com... (...) Rumours still persist that the fourth plane might have been shot down This from todays Independent, a quality UK broadsheet. (URL) to the report, the US government (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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