Beverly Eckert, Ground Zero Widow , Plane Crash Victim today

Yahoo News ^ | Feb 13,2009

[AmericanMade1776]

In this Friday, May 24, 2002 file photo, Beverly Eckert, 50, of Stamford, Conn., holds a picture of her late husband Sean Rooney, 50, in Stamford, Ct. Eckert, one of the victims of Continental Flight 3407, was a Sept. 11 widow who lost her her husband Sean Rooney, her high school sweetheart, in the World Trade Center

[AmericanMade1776]

Sept 11,2001

[AmericanMade1776]

Sept. 11 widow, activist killed in Buffalo plane crash
Just last week, Eckert was at the White House with Barack Obama, part of a meeting the president had with relatives of those killed in the 2001 attacks and the bombing of the USS Cole to discuss how the new administration would handle terror suspects http://www.startribune.com/nation/39549792.html

[AmericanMade1776]

The wish of a 9/11 widow
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/041213/13eckert.peo.htm

[sunmars]

What is it with people who just meet Obama or offend him have a nasty habit of getting ill or die. The man is Jessica Fletcher, wherever he turns up, someone gets it.

[conservative cat]

Hmmmm...Was she a thorn in Obama’s side?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Was listening to the Quinn and Rose show this morning when this ladies name was released and they talked about her. Rose said that this woman told her story about her husband being in contact with her while trying to get out of the building. He got to the 90th floor and could not get down any further. He knew he was going to die and they talked on the phone about what a wonderful life they had together. Rose also said that she was the founder of a group called “Voices of September 11th” who are in favor of gitmo and going after the terrorists.

[AmericanMade1776]

yes... all of that is correct.

[AmericanMade1776]

Not sure that is fair to say about Obama, there is a lot of bad you can say about Obama, but to link him to this woman’s death is not fair.

[Balding_Eagle]

Strange coincidence though.

[Right Cal Gal]

Well, I am sorry for the loss to her family, but I wish her godspeed in being reunited with with man she has loved all her life.

[RummyChick]

...at least she is with her husband now

such a wild coincidence..it would be even weirder if the plane crash was terrorist related

[donnab]

Sometimes I am amazed at the comments here. For me I will say God bless her and her family. Tragedy yet again befalls their family. My prayers are with them and the other families. Maybe I am just touchy having flown in from Chicago yesterday and landing in the awful winds. It was the first time that I white knuckled a landing. At first I admonished myself for being irrational and maybe getting older was allowing fear to step into my thinking. But after being God blessed and safely home I began to hear that my fear was valid. Obama's name has no place in this post. Reaching there ... This is a time for prayers and mourning for this family and the others that will be affected by this loss and this plane crash. God bless each and every one of them with the strength and courage to deal with their losses.

[RebelTXRose]

Yes - she is with him now. This was most likely weather-related.

What is WEIRD is the local talk radio station has on their website: “Obama VOICES condolences to victims’ families”
(capitals are mine.)

WHO “VOICES” condolences? Usually they are “offered.”

[Sig Sauer P220]

Shall there be an Obama body count the same as there is for the Clintons?

[Starfleet Command]

What is WEIRD is the local talk radio station has on their website: “Obama VOICES condolences to victims’ families” (capitals are mine.)

WHO “VOICES” condolences? Usually they are “offered.”

Because "Obama reads condolences from teleprompter" was too honest.

[jessduntno]

59 years have passed since that hot afternoon on the 20th of August 1940 in an old house surrounded by leafy trees and cactus in a peaceful suburb of Coyoacán, in the capital of Mexico. Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, revolutionary Marxist and, alongside Lenin, one of the most outstanding leaders of the 1905 revolution and the October revolution in Russia, fell victim to an assassination expressly ordered by Joseph Stalin.

[AmericanMade1776]

The connection that all Americans feel toward those who died on Sept 11,2001 and their families, in a way makes us all one American family who grieves together.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"59 years have passed since that hot afternoon on the 20th of August 1940"

Did you cull this from a 10 year old newspaper article? August 1940 is 69 years ago.

[jessduntno]

“Did you cull this from a 10 year old newspaper article? August 1940 is 69 years ago.”

It might have been an old article...will I get points deducted for this egregious mistake???

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"will I get points deducted for this egregious mistake???"

Nah, just 30 lashes with a wet noodle. On a serious note, I think your post is inferring that perhaps Obama may be involved somehow. If that was your intent, I think you are completely wrong and being a little insensitive to the families. Everything that goes on in America does not have to do with the Obama administration. Some people acted the same way when Clinton was in office. The dumbocrats thought the same thing about Bush. Sometimes a tragedy is just that. A tragedy.