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Passengers voted to attack hijackers
CNN ^ | September 12, 2001 Posted: 10:56 PM EDT (0256 GMT) | CNN

Posted on 09/12/2001 8:10:59 PM PDT by patent

Edited on 04/29/2004 1:58:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Passengers on board the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in rural Pennsylvania Tuesday apparently decided to attack the terrorists who had commandeered the plane, according to family members of one passenger.

Passenger Jeremy Glick, flying with his 2-month-old child Emerson, called his wife Liz and in-laws in New York on a cell phone to say the plane had been hijacked.


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To: patent
Thank God, these Americans attended schools where appeasement and hatred of America and the Republican party were not taught, as it is in public schools today. Will America have any heros twenty years from now, after today's educational establishment finish with their liberal indoctrination of our children? Doubtful.
161 posted on 09/13/2001 5:38:35 AM PDT by swampfox98
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To: soccermom
As with any other weapon, there can always be a threat without a certainty of follow-through. They were told the plane was going to land. They had no reason to suspect otherwise.

This is certainly the advice they would have receieved from the crew, based on their training. You are right and habs4ever is wrong.

162 posted on 09/13/2001 5:38:36 AM PDT by Chief Inspector Clouseau
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To: TheDon
Jerk.

Bozo.

Is that what "TheDon" wants to be?

That is how you are acting. Show some respect for decent people.

163 posted on 09/13/2001 5:41:43 AM PDT by bvw
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To: patent
These men are great heroes. God bless them all.

**********************

A lot of people have asked why no one seemed to have resisted the other hijackers. Clearly, no one could have expected hijackers, especially lightly armed ones, to have been planning to fly their planes into the WTC.

On this plane, people knew what the hijackers had in mind and did the courageous thing.

164 posted on 09/13/2001 5:43:08 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
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To: abner
In defense of Mr. Mertz, I heard that someone today had an interview with two eyewitnesses to our military shooting down the plane. I personally would rather believe that heroism on the plane is the reason it went down where it did.

It is very possible that both events happened. The passengers were very brave and the military shot it down.

It would have been a shame if the military didn't give the passengers a chance to take over, but the pilots may have already been dead. I don't know how close they were to population sites, but the military waited too long to do anything about the Pentagon plane (they had at least 17 minutes). I'm not going to second guess the military's decision on this plane until more facts come out.

165 posted on 09/13/2001 5:50:20 AM PDT by FR_addict
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To: petuniasevan
The Congressional Medal of Honor to these heroic passengers.

I believe that's only for military. The civilian equivalent is the Congressional Medal of Freedom.

166 posted on 09/13/2001 5:51:49 AM PDT by NonZeroSum
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To: bvw
Jerk. Bozo.

I'm hurt...

Show some respect for decent people.

A friend of yours?

167 posted on 09/13/2001 5:56:07 AM PDT by TheDon
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To: Mr. Bungle
The heroism by those men - willing to act to defend others irrespective of their inevitable deaths - is the stuff this nation is built on. God has rewarded them in heaven, and their names will live in history forever. We can never forget them.

We can only bestow some minor token of our own esteem and gratitude to the men who took out the hijackers, and the rest of the passengers who bravely went along.

I don't know how many bodies will be identifiable, but I propose a mass grave at Arlington, along with a civilian equivalent of the Medal of Honor.

There should be a sculpture with the names of all the passengers on it. In small letters, and defaced, should be the names (or aliases) of the rats that hijacked them. A suitable sculture would be a bald eagle soaring into the sky with a dead rat in his talons. We want to glorify these heroes for all time, and show how much we despise those cowardly bastards who did this.

My one hope was that the passengers were able to tear to pieces a couple of those motherf*ckers. And that before they died, they realized that they had failed utterly, and no paradise was waiting for them, because those despised, soft Americans denied them the obscene glory they coveted.

168 posted on 09/13/2001 5:59:50 AM PDT by 300winmag
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To: habs4ever
Without the guns, there is no landing, no firefight, , no need to worry about a long trip in the air.What they were armed with determined the outcome, at least from my point of view.With guns, there was a chance for a peaceful resolution; without them, it was a suicide mission.

I understand what you're saying, but in real-time this is a lot to compute in a little amount of time. The same thought might have run through my head if I was on the plane. However, I would also consider whether the terrorists were operating under the same premises and rationale that I was. What I think is necessary for getting out alive may not be what they think is necessary.

All that in mind I think I would have complied, unless the terrorists or someone else told me I was about to meet my death. Then I would have fought like hell to gain control of that plane.

170 posted on 09/13/2001 6:01:19 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: Chief Inspector Clouseau
The people on the 4th plane had information that the people on at least first two planes did not. Therefore, the decision was decidedly different for people on that plane...they knew that this particular hijacking was NOT likely to end on a tarmac somewhere. As a result, they took action.

Thus, IMHO it is unreasonable to posthumously criticize the passengers on board the other planes.

Exactly. Everybody did their best with the information available to them. If the people on the other planes had known more, they would have acted differently.

Let us celebrate the heroes, and mourn all the dead. The rest is just schoolyard posturing.

171 posted on 09/13/2001 6:16:25 AM PDT by Taliesan
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To: soccermom
Yes, but they also said they had a bomb. History tells us that hijackings usually end without mass loss of life. They had no way of knowing the agenda here was any different.

Exactly. Before 9/11 had I been on a hijacked flight I would have sit tight. This suicide flight is absolutely unheard of. I don't think it will occur again. I think if I got on a plane tomorrow and it was hijacked, I'd assume the hijackers were going to crash it. I don't know of anyone who would have assumed this before today.

172 posted on 09/13/2001 6:20:01 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: TheDon
Abner I have met in person, yes. You're certainly over the edge when it comes to loose comments.
173 posted on 09/13/2001 6:20:08 AM PDT by bvw
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To: patent
["A group of us are going to do something".]

Grit and steel, by God. Grit and steel.

May God rest their brave souls.

174 posted on 09/13/2001 6:23:57 AM PDT by Twodees
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To: bvw
Abner I have met in person, yes.

From your unneeded defense, I suspected as much.

You're certainly over the edge when it comes to loose comments.

You're objecting to my derogatory comments regarding abner's theory that the US military shot down plane #4 over Penn?

175 posted on 09/13/2001 6:26:16 AM PDT by TheDon
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To: harpseal
God Bless em.........

They did what needed to be done and albeit they died in the effort they were successful in stopping the tango's from reaching their goal's IMHO. And for that I thank them from the bottom of my soul.

To their families left behind I suggest that the loss is unbearable but the knowledge that their loved ones , in their actions saved many many lives by disrupting the tango's plans.........

Stay Safe.

176 posted on 09/13/2001 6:33:16 AM PDT by Squantos
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To: TheDon
I'm objecting to the demeaning atitude you have taken. It certainly doen't help any logical counter-argument you may make to what she said. She spoke in fact -- what she had heard from a trusted source and said what the source was.

Your responses have been all reactionay emotion -- namecalling, demeaning. They add nothing.

You can do better.

177 posted on 09/13/2001 6:41:05 AM PDT by bvw
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To: libertarian_usa
If you read the above article, Deena Burnett also could not give more details of phone conversation with her husband because of being FBI classified info. Quit jumping at boogeymen.
178 posted on 09/13/2001 7:02:10 AM PDT by Marie Antoinette
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To: Rightwing Conspirator1
Exactly --- from know on, any hijacker will be torn apart by a pack of wolves. There is nothing to lose now.
179 posted on 09/13/2001 7:07:39 AM PDT by soccermom
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To: Fred Mertz
FredMertz, you're sick. Go away and try to learn to be a human being.
180 posted on 09/13/2001 7:14:19 AM PDT by RooRoobird14
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