These men, like those firefighters and police who entered the WTC only to have it collapse on them, are of a continuing line. They are heirs of the heroes who won our independence, and those who have protected us ever since.
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.