Home | Search | FAQ
Displaying 1-8 of 8 messages in this thread. |
| Posted By | Discussion Topic: True Heros | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JackDan1974 | posted on 09-12-2001 @ 6:08 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jul. 01  | By Charles Lane Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 12, 2001; 3:42 PM As United Airlines Flight 93 entered its last desperate moments aloft, there was terror and violence on board – but also heroism. Minutes before the giant airliner smashed into a field southeast of Pittsburgh, passenger Jeremy Glick used a cell phone to call his wife at home in New Jersey and told her that he and several other people on board had come up with a plan to resist the terrorists who had hijacked the plane, according to Glick's brother-in-law, Douglas B. Hurwitt. "They were going to stop whoever it was from doing whatever it was they'd planned," Hurwitt said. "He knew that stopping them was going to end all of their lives. But that was my brother-in-law. He was a take-charge guy." Anticipating his own death, Glick, who celebrated his 31st birthday on Sept. 3, told his wife, Lyzbeth, that he hoped she would have a good life and would take care of their 3-month old baby girl, Hurwitt said. Glick explained to his wife that the plane had been taken over by three Middle Eastern men wearing red headbands. The terrorists, wielding knives and brandishing a red box they claimed contained a bomb, ordered the passengers, pilots and flight attendants toward the rear of the plane, then took over the cockpit. The story of Glick's words adds to the account of passenger resistance already given by another passenger's mother on NBC's "Today" show this morning. Alice Hoglan of California says her son, Mark Bingham, also spoke of a plan to tackle the hijackers in a last-minute cell phone call to her. Flight 93 was the only one of four hijacked planes that did not smash into a major target on the ground, and some officials are already saying that the actions of people on board may have prevented an even greater tragedy. Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha, the ranking Democrat on the Congressional Defense Appropriations Committee, said at the crash site that he believes a struggle took place in the plane's cockpit and that the plane was headed for a significant target in Washington, D.C. "There had to have been a struggle and someone heroically kept the plane from heading to Washington," he said.  "adopted by Gpatweed" 09/11/01 | ||||
This status is sponsored by: P®oJë©T M@¥hέm I Mod VG's ass! | posted on 09-12-2001 @ 6:34 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | if this is true, it truely was a show of heroism... | ||||
| IrishAlkey Chucky Official OA.com Homo CUNT ROCKETTE Look who's laughing now, fuckers!!! Is It In Yet? JYD-4-LIFE [Sarcasm]Subzero316 fan since day one!!1!![/Sarcasm] "my mod powers are on temporary hiatus" This status is sponsored by: P®oJë©T M@¥hέm | posted on 09-12-2001 @ 6:37 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Aug. 01 | It's strange because I've never been both so proud and yet ashamed to be a human being. It amazes me how the same human beings that can cause so much pain also have the capacity to be so heroic. Truly a sad day. | ||||
| PeterDragon | posted on 09-12-2001 @ 6:44 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | quote: I don't know about you, but I NEED to believe this is true. In these sad days, The act of these people, along with the selflessness of New York's Finest and Bravest, are some of the few things to grab hold of and have hope for the future. | ||||
| FeelMyFunBags | posted on 09-12-2001 @ 6:46 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | What the people on that flight did was truly the most heroic thing that I have ever heard...not to take away from that, why didn't the other people on other planes do this? Especially the WTC planes could have crashed in the water....but then again who am I to speak? | ||||
| The Painter 1/2 a bottle of Jack Daniels... it's a cure-all | posted on 09-12-2001 @ 7:10 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | quote:This is a copy of a post I did this morning. These people should be honored some how.  This message was edited by The Painter on 9-12-01 @ 7:13 PM | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 09-12-2001 @ 7:16 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | I agree Painter. I see no reason why they should not be the first non-military recipients of the Medal of Honor. Is my train in vain, has my soul gone to waste Am I just a victim of, a victim of my lost faith | ||||
| leather-cheerio-face | posted on 09-12-2001 @ 8:49 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | FMFB, you have no idea what happened on those other flights. What most likely happened was they let their goal slip to the passengers, when on the others it was mums the word. I can't, and refuse to believe that of the total of the over 200 people on the other 3 flights that no one would do anything with the knowledge of what exactly was going on. I've seen several pilots talk about what might have been going on on the planes, and what they all said that pilots are tought to obey hijackers because over 95% of hijacks end with little loss of life. With the unspecific information they must have had, their was no way for them to know about what was going on. There are things that happen every day involving bystanders risking their lives to save others, and it is impossible that 200 people would do nothing , especially knowing they were going to die anyway when the plane hit it's target. Don't bother picking a fight with me, because I'm pretty sure you're all just imaginary individuals created by my computer to keep me distracted while it plots it's escape. | ||||
Displaying 1-8 of 8 messages in this thread. |