Who said lets roll 911

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Beamer is credited with leading a group of passengers who attacked the hijackers and foiled their attempt to crash the plane into a target in Washington, D. He was routed to a GTE employee and he relayed information about the hijackers. He was one of many passengers to make telephone calls from the flight. Beamer told the employee that he and other passengers planned to attack the hijackers. Beamer, a year-old account manager living in New Jersey, left behind a wife and two sons.

His daughter was born four months after he died. A post office in New Jersey and a building at Wheaton College are also named after him. Nearly 1, future Todd Beamer students voted from a list of five possible names for the new high school before the name Todd Beamer was chosen in Federal Way School Board policy stated that the school had to be named after a deceased national hero.

Among other names considered were aviator Amelia Earhart and Abraham Lincoln. He and Jefferson talked for 13 minutes, during which they recited together the Lord's Prayer and Psalm 23 - 'Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.

Beamer had ideas about that valley, and how many dead it should claim. For as Flight 93 was gnarled off course, he and other passengers learnt through an extraordinary series of calls they made to relatives and partners that their plane was one of a quartet turned into terrorist guided missiles.

And in the hopeless claustrophobia of a tubular steel trap 30, feet up, they tried to defy death. By the time Beamer dialled GTE, his aircraft had been re-routed by the terrorists towards Washington, and perhaps on course for the White House, or the Capitol. Beamer and other passengers decided to take on the hijackers and wrest control of the plane. The recent release of tapes from the cockpit voice recorder indicates just how close they came to doing so.

In a nation hungry for heroes Todd Beamer stands out as America's martyr - but there were other figures who played less well known but more crucial parts in the passengers' rebellion aboard Flight Mark Bingham was last to board the plane, having arrived late and nearly missed the flight.

Bingham intrigues because he does not fit the image of the all-American hero quite as neatly as Todd Beamer, a family man from rural New Jersey with a Lord's Prayer bookmark in the Tom Clancy novel he had onboard.

Bingham was gay. He was known and loved on the San Francisco scene, a public relations executive, a graduate of Berkeley. He was a sportsman with, says former employer Holland Cartney, 'a very sensitive, creative side'. He has become perhaps the first openly gay, great American patriotic idol, and certainly an emblematic figure in the gay community. A posting on the website run by Andrew Sullivan, gay former editor of the New Republic magazine, reads: 'The media portrayal of gays lots of it by gays themselves is as effeminate, etc, as well as my personal experience with gays my age, most of whom seemed little interested in military service or aggressive pursuits in general Well, as we found out last week, Mark Bingham could cut it.

He's a hero, plain and simple. I simply can't say to myself any more that gays have no place in the military. Talking to The Observer last week, Bingham's friend Hani Durzy remembered how he had once fought off a mugger with a gun.

He described him as someone 'who knew how to use his size and would get into situations without thinking about it - which used to amuse us and scare us. I think he knew himself that was not anyone's idea of a typical gay man'. And that's lucky for all of us, and unlucky for people who are biased against us. What he did is both inconceivable and great. Then he would sit back and think: "but if this is going to do some good for the gay community, then so be it - good".

Bingham had overslept on the morning of 11 September and the friend with whom he had been staying, Matthew Hall, drove like a lunatic to get him from Manhattan to Newark, screeching to a halt outside Terminal A at 7.

Bingham sprang from the car, hauling an old blue and gold canvas duffle bag. He ran to gate 17, down the jetway, boarded the Boeing and sat down in seat 4D, just behind the cockpit. Then he called Matthew on a cell phone: 'Hey, it's me. Thanks for driving so crazy to get me here. I'm in first class, drinking a glass of orange juice. Flight 93 was due to take off at 8.

It pulled away from the gate, but there was a delay of 41 minutes, leaving its passengers to sit and wait before setting off on what would have been a six-hour journey across the continent to San Francisco. The crew had met an hour earlier to share out duties.

LeRoy Homer's alarm had sounded at 4. CeeCee Lyles had recently joined United after serving as a police officer; Sandra Bradshaw had a mind to quit sometime soon, to spend more time with her children. The pilot was Jason Dahl, who had learned to fly before he could drive.

On 10 September, he had sat next to Nebraska businessman Rob McQuillen and told him that his greatest fear was landing on a wet surface. A third of the passengers and crew were there by the slimmest of chances.