Absolutely correct.
I remember the article about this...person, and it wasn't that he actually did anything, it was that it he was "...a big strapping, gay, rugby player who ran with the bulls that would be the sort of person to try and overpower the hijackers."
What a pathetic excuse for writing an article.
Thomas Burnett phoned his wife from hijacked United Airlines Flight 93, and said he was going to die, but he wasn't going quietly. "There's three of us who are going to do something about it," he reportedly told Deena Burnett.
Leave the Hero alone.
Why don't you doubt Mr. Burnett's heroism too. After all, we don't have any actual evidence that he DID something.
Your hatred and stupidity are showing.
1. Four groups of airline passengers on 9/11 allowed themselves to be cowed, herded, and essentially captured by very small groups of goat-smelling bastards armed only with boxcutters.
2. The crash of Flight 93 apparently was caused by the futile attempts of a handful of passengers who acted only after they learned that they were facing imminent and certain death as riders of a missile aimed at a Washington, D.C. landmark. They clearly had nothing to lose by trying to re-capture the cockpit after it was far too late to do so with any expectation of success.
3. This creation and adulation of "heroes" is both nauseating and akin to an entire nation and its leaders believing in Santa Claus.
4. Largely overlooked is the fact that the fate of four airliners on 9/11 stands as a shameful testament to the degree to which the people of this Nation largely have been:
(a) turned into a citizenry too-widely populated by emasculated sheep;
(b) spoon-fed and have bought into propoganda disseminated by Government "security experts" who for decades now have been preaching that hijacked passengers should meekly submit to their captors so that "nobody will get hurt; and
(c) under the influence of years of poisonning by a liberal leadership at all levels of government, feminists, peaceniks, politically-correct socialists, and the mind-rotting mass media, dumbed-down and stripped of any warrior spirit that ever existed in America's better days.
We really should wake up and smell the reality that America on many fronts has become a nation of wusses. The terrorists knew and continue to know this and correctly predicted that the horror of 9/11 would be inflicted on this Nation without their having to fire a shot.
Despite the ass-kicking they have received at the hands of the best and the bravest of us who proudly wear the uniforms of American soldiers, sailors, and airmen, these religiously fanatical servants of Satan apparently have been emboldened to carry out yet more attacks on American citizens and interests around the world.
One can only pray that we Americans now have more resolve and perspective concerning our mortality, vulnerability, and weaknesses to successfully redeem ourselves from the national shame that should have been trumpeted from the housetops since 9/11.
I love this country and believe that it was established under the hand of the Almighty to serve as His earthly base of operations in these latter days. And I pray that we all will seek His guidance and protection and a sense of purpose and destiny.
And as the for "heroism" over the skys of America on that fateful September morning, I can only say -- "Lets' Roll," my @ss.....