A point I think is important:
The citizens aboard Flight 93, absent new and chilling intelligence information they received via cell phone, in all likelihood would have proceeded according to what had been SOP for decades in dealing with hijackers: Sit tight and wait for the cavalry to arrive.
But, when they learned the truth, that airliners were being used as guided missiles to attack Americans and American landmarks, they instantly realized that the rules had changed.
They immediately adapted, and quite literally formed a militia on the spot. No cavalry was coming.
Not having anything that we would normally think of as weapons, they did what they had to do: they improvised. They heated water in a microwave to scald the terrorists, and made a drink cart into a battering ram.
Dang, if I was POTUS, I'd give them all the Congressional Medal of Honor.
I know, I know. They weren't military, in the strictest terms. But they were American patriots, protecting their fellow Americans, for which they paid the ultimate price.
Someone I don't think too many folks would argue.
I'm taking my elderly father to see it....a World War II vet....
...We'll go Sunday or Monday.
"Dang, if I was POTUS, I'd give them all the Congressional Medal of Honor."
There is a civilian equivalent. Medal of Freedom.