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Re: Tale of bravery from fourth plane
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:44:14 GMT
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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 year, there was a girl (who I didn't know personally),
Ari Beamer, from here in Wheaton but attending there. I can only speculate
she's some sort of relative.
Aside from the firsthand accounts a couple Lugnuts have told, this is the
closest I've really come to the tragedy.
-Tim
"Bill Farkas" <wolfe65@msn.com> wrote in message news:GJy3I8.1C4@lugnet.com...
> 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:
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> 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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