Somerset County Pennslyvania September 11 2001

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The Darkest Day in America
September 11, 2001
The Day America was under attack.
And it is not over yet.

Somerset County, Pennsylvania

United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark, New Jersey
bound for San Francisco crashed in
Somerset County, Pennsylvania at 10:10 am.
All 44 passengers and crew where killed.

United Airlines Flight 93

They say some of the passengers try to overcome the hijackers.
Thats why it did not crash at one of the terroist targets
what could of been the White House or Air Force One.
These people where true heros.
Think of the lives saved because of these true Americans.

Some documents from that horrific moment.

Houston Chronicle
Sept. 16, 2001, 6:01PM

Flight 93 victim talked of jumping
hijackers

Associated Press

                             PHILADELPHIA -- "Are you guys ready? Let's roll!" is an
                             expression Todd Beamer used whenever his wife and two
                             young sons were leaving their home for a family outing.

                             The 32-year-old businessman and Sunday school teacher said
                             the same thing before he and other passengers apparently took
                             action against hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on
                             Tuesday, shortly before the plane crashed in a western
                             Pennsylvania field.

                             The jetliner, which government officials suspect was headed for
                             a high-profile target in Washington, was the fourth to crash in a
                             coordinated terrorist attack that killed thousands, and the only
                             one that didn't take lives on the ground.

                             Todd Beamer placed a call on one of the Boeing 757's
                             on-board telephones and spoke for 13 minutes with GTE
                             operator Lisa D. Jefferson, Beamer's wife, Lisa, said. He
                             provided detailed information about the hijacking and -- after
                             the operator told him about the morning's World Trade Center
                             and Pentagon attacks -- said he and others on the plane were
                             planning to act against the terrorists aboard.

                             Before the call ended and with yelling heard in the background,
                             Todd Beamer asked the operator to pray with him. Together,
                             they recited the 23rd Psalm. Then he asked Jefferson to
                             promise she would call his wife of seven years -- who is
                             expecting a third child -- and their two sons, ages 1 and 3.

After receiving clearance from investigators, Beamer said
Jefferson kept her promise Friday.

                             Bobbi Hennessey, a spokeswoman for GTE parent company
                             Verizon Communications Inc., declined comment Sunday. A
                             telephone number for Jefferson could not be found.

                             "People asked me if I'm upset that I didn't speak with him, but
                             I'm glad he called (Jefferson) instead," Lisa Beamer said. "I
                             would have been helpless. And I know what his last words
                             would have been to me, anyway."

                             Beamer said her husband placed the call at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday
                             and told Jefferson that there were three knife-wielding hijackers
                             on board, one who appeared to have a bomb tied to his chest
                             with a belt. The other two hijackers took over the cockpit after
                             forcing the pilot and co-pilot out.

                             "They realized they were going to die. Todd said he and some
                             other passengers were going to jump on the guy with the
                             bomb," Lisa Beamer said.

                             Several other passengers made phone calls from the jet before
                             it crashed southeast of Pittsburgh: Jeremy Glick, 31; Mark
                             Bingham, 31; and Thomas Burnett Jr. 38. Glick and Burnett
                             said they were going to do something.

                             Todd Beamer dropped the phone after talking to Jefferson,
                             leaving the line open. It was then that the operator heard
                             Beamer's words: "Let's roll."

Then silence.

Shortly afterward, the plane crashed, killing all 44 aboard.

Sept. 17, 2001, 11:22PM

Families, friends weep in grief at Pennsylvania remembrance

By CHARLES SHEEHAN
Associated Press

                            SHANKSVILLE, Pa. -- Weeping relatives of the victims
                             aboard United Flight 93 left photographs and other mementos
                             Monday on a makeshift memorial of hay bales in the
                             Pennsylvania field where the hijacked plane fell.

                             Several hundred yards from the crash site, dozens of friends
                             and family members left candy, baseball caps, a flight
                             attendant's jacket and even teddy bears, said two Salvation
                             Army officials who attended the service.

"All we could do is be there and pray for them," Salvation
Army Maj. Ed Pritchard said.

                             The site includes hanging flags representing the backgrounds of
                             the victims. A Japanese woman bowed to the Japanese flag
                             several times, then ran back to the hay bales and picked up her
                             son's photo.

"She was calling out his name. She was in tears," Salvation
Army Maj. Richard Zander said.

                             The Boeing 757 was the last of four hijacked jetliners to crash
                             Sept. 11. It was headed from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco
                             when it made an abrupt turn near Cleveland and veered back
                             across Pennsylvania before crashing in Shanksville, killing all 44
                             aboard.

                             A number of passengers were able to make phone calls from
                             the jet, including several who said they planned to storm their
                             captors.

                             "They banded together and fought back against their captors.
                             They saved hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives," Gov. Tom
                             Ridge said at the service. "Thank God for their lives, their
                             families and their heroism."

                             On Monday, state police troopers saluted as a caravan of six
                             buses carrying the victims' families arrived at the field 80 miles
                             southeast of Pittsburgh. When the buses left about 90 minutes
                             later, some inside flashed the "V" sign to onlookers, while
                             others waved at Red Cross officials.

                             At a second memorial service several miles away, there were
                            vials of soil from the crash site for mourners to take home.
                             Those in attendance struggled against the wind to keep candles
                             lighted, and many wore white ribbons in memory of their lost
                             loved ones.

                             "One of last Tuesday's victims, in his final message to his family,
                             said that he loved them and that he would see them again," first
                             lady Laura Bush told about 300 people. "You grieve today,
                             and the hurt will not soon go away. But that hope is real, and
                             it's forever, just as the love you share with your loved ones is

forever."

CREW

Jason Dahl, 43, from Denver, Colorado, was the plane's captain. He had a wife and son.
Dahl had a lifelong interest in flying, said his aunt, Maxine Atkinson, of Waterloo, Iowa.

Leroy Homer, 36, from Marlton, New Jersey, was the first officer on board. He was married and had a daughter.

Lorraine Bay was a flight attendant.

Sandra Bradshaw, 38, of Greensboro, North Carolina, was a flight attendant.

Wanda Green was a flight attendant.

CeeCee Lyles of Fort Myers, Florida, was a flight attendant.
She reached her husband, Lorne, by cell phone to tell him that she
loved him and their children before the plane went down. The couple between them had four children.

Deborah Welsh was a flight attendant

PASSENGERS

Christian Adams

Todd Beamer, 32, was from Cranbury, New Jersey.

Alan Beaven, 48, of Oakland, California, was an environmental lawyer.

Mark Bingham, 31, of San Francisco owned a public relations firm, the Bingham Group. He called his mother, Alice Hoglan, 15
minutes before the plane crashed and told her that the plane had been taken over by three men who claimed to have a bomb.
Hoglan said her son told her that some passengers planned to try to regain control of the plane.
"He said, 'I love you very, very much, ' " Hoglan said.

Deora Bodley, 20, of Santa Clara, California, was a university student.

Marion Britton

Thomas E. Burnett Jr., 38, of San Ramon, California, was a senior vice president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corp., a medical research and development company, and the father of three. He made four calls to his wife, Deena, from the plane. Deena Burnett said that her husband told her that one passenger had been stabbed and that "a group of us are going to do something." He also told her that the people on board knew about the attack on the World Trade Center, apparently through other phone calls.

William Cashman

Georgine Corrigan

Joseph Deluca

Patrick Driscoll

Edward Felt, 41, was from Matawan, New Jersey.

Colleen Fraser

Andrew Garcia

Emerson Glick, 2 months old, was from West Milford, New Jersey.

Jeremy Glick, 31, from West Milford, New Jersey, was flying with his infant child, Emerson. He called his wife, Liz, and in-laws in New York on a cell phone to tell them the plane had been hijacked, Joanne Makely, Glick's mother-in-law, told CNN. Glick said that one of the hijackers "had a red box he said was a bomb, and one had a knife of some nature," Makely said. Glick asked Makely if the reports about the attacks on the World Trade Center were true, and she told him they were. He left the phone for a while, returning to say,
"The men voted to attack the terrorists," Makely said.

Lauren Grandcolas of San Rafael, California, was a sales worker at Good Housekeeping magazine.

Donald F. Green, 52, was from Greenwich, Connecticut.

Linda Gronlund

Richard Guadagno, 38, of Eureka, California,
was the manager of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

Toshiya Kuge
Waleska Martinez

Nicole Miller
Mark Rothenberg

Christine Snyder, 32, was from Kailua, Hawaii. She was an arborist for the Outdoor Circle and was returning from conference in Washington. She had been married less than a year.

John Talignani

Honor Wainio