Let's roll,'' Flight 93 victim heard to say minutes before crash Pennsylvania field

AP ^ | September 16, 2001 | JOANN LOVIGLIO

[FreeLibertarian]

It's officially Operation Noble Eagle

I thought that was the official name of the Homeland Defense portion of the War.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Hmm. No name for the overseas offensive? How about Operation Desert Pig Roast.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Operation NOBLE EAGLE had been declared by Free Nations, the courageous battle for the Elimination of Worldwide Terrorism.

[HiTech RedNeck]

PS I think the offensive is called Operation Screaming Eagle... (as a harley rider i can appreciate that!)

[PhilDragoo]

Bump for Beamer rolling up to St. Peter for a hero's welcome.

Bump for Osama's head in a jar on the Oval Office desk for Bush's next fireside chat.

Bump for not giving flight attendants keys to the cockpit.

Bump for rolling up this terrorist network one sleeper strapped to a DieHard at a time.

[FreeLibertarian]

Hmm. No name for the overseas offensive? How about Operation Desert Pig Roast.

LOL

[FreeLibertarian]

PS I think the offensive is called Operation Screaming Eagle... (as a harley rider i can appreciate that!)

Operation Screaming Eagle - I like that name, the last sound Bin Ladin and a lot of other terrorists will ever hear.

[FreeLibertarian]

Bump for Osama's head in a jar on the Oval Office desk for Bush's next fireside chat.

[Stentor]

Bump for Osama's head in a jar on the Oval Office desk for Bush's next fireside chat.

Just don't put it next to the candy jar.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Mr. Beamer, we hear you loud and clear.

Hope that we can live up to the standard you, and your fellow passengers established.

[onyx]

Yes!

[185JHP]

"We few, we happy few - we band of brothers. This story shall the good man teach his son."

[Knitebane]

the Presidential Medal of Freedom I believe, and a USS Jeremy Glick and an USS Todd Beamer

This deserves a great big bump.

As a former sailor and the brother of an active duty sailor, I say that I would have been proud to ride the waves on ships named after men like this.

Knitebane

[Pelham]

Well said.

[Gilbo_3]

Bump & ROLL

[Looking4Truth]

Another bump.

LET'S ROLL!

[Don Joe]

"But, gven the number of cell phone conversations we're hearing about, they may make a special effort to make sure none of them get billed."

I can easily see how that line entry for the last call could become a family heirloom, treasured for generations.

That said, it would be in poor taste for the fee to not be waived.

[fabian]

bump for some very brave souls...

[GretchenEE]

One of the widows said her husband told her, "We took a vote ... three of us are going to take them out," or similar wording. The way I read that, all the passengers took a vote on whether they would: (1) try to save themselves somehow by not interfering with the hijackers or (2) try to save the ground target by letting several volunteers among them take out the hijackers.

This is excellent news, if I am understanding it rightly, on more than one front. First, it rules out lawsuits for wrongful death for the surviving family members. Second, it provides a pattern for any passengers in future situations. Third, their votes make every passenger on that flight eligible for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in my opinion.

[Illbay]

Well, it seems to me that it wouldn't be consistent with their objective.

Sure it would. If they failed at gaining control of the aircraft, of if the passengers were able to stage a counterattack, at least SOMETHING would be salvaged from it--a dead plane and dead passengers.