9:45 a.m. ... 9/11 ... White House evacuated

The Twin Towers had been attacked by airplanes an hour earlier ... Pan Am Flight 77 had flown into the Pentagon ... and now United Flight 93 was being followed on radar flying toward Washington, D.C. No one was aware of the struggle going on inside that aircraft as passengers, aware of terrorism attacks earlier that morning, vowed to storm the cockpit and avoid whatever disaster the terrorist pilots had in mind.

The White House was evacuated at 9:45. Employees were urgently told by Secret Service to leave the building and, as that was underway, employees were then told to evacuate as fast as they could. Women took off their shoes and ran in their stocking feet out the White House grounds and onto the street and down the sidewalk.

Flight 93 would go down at 10:06 a.m. taking the brave souls with it who prevented further national tragedy. May we never forget the herorism of those on Flight 93.

9/11 ... may we never forget.

Heroes of Flight 93 ... "Let's roll!"

The heroes of Flight 93 were ordinary Americans who reacted to extraordinary times. On a hijacked plane heading toward Washington, D.C. and possibly the White House or the Capitol building, and with the knowledge of what had already occurred that morning with the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, the passengers took matters into their own hand.

Ordinary Americans became heroes in their attempt to overtake the Muselim terrorists who had pirated the plane, causing it to crash into the countryside of Pennsylvania.

Flight 93 had heroes on board that day....

Todd Beamer - "Let's roll!"
The 32-year-old Oracle Corp. account manager from Cranbury, N.J., was believed to have helped lead a passenger attack on Flight 93 hijackers that prevented the jet from reaching its target, possibly the White House. Beamer spoke to a GTE operator on the plane's phone. His final words -- "Are you guys ready? Let's roll!" -- have become a rallying cry for the war against terrorism. Beamer and his wife, Lisa, had two sons. His daughter, Morgan, was born in January of 2002. Beamer played baseball and basketball in college and loved coaching youth sports. President Bush, in an address to the nation, praised Beamer as "an exceptional man." Today, the Todd M. Beamer Foundation aims to help kids deal with trauma and learn how to make choices.

Thomas E. Burnett Jr.
Burnett called his wife, Deena, to tell her about the Flight 93 hijacking and said he and other passengers were "going to do something about it." Burnett, 38, of San Ramon, Calif., was senior vice president and chief operating officer of Thoratec Corp., a medical research and development company. His wife and three daughters moved to Arkansas afterwards to be closer to her parents. The new Thomas Burnett Family Foundation plans to provide endowments for children's bereavement camps and leadership scholarships at selected universities.

Jeremy Glick
Glick called his wife, Lyz, after terrorists took over Flight 93. She patched the call to a 911 dispatcher, who told Glick about earlier attacks in New York. Glick told his wife some passengers had taken a vote, and "We're going to rush the hijackers." Glick, 31, of West Milford, N.J., had been a collegiate judo champion at the University of Rochester. His older sister, Jennifer, is president of Jeremy's Heroes foundation which is devoted to helping people build character through sports. The foundation has supplied sneakers to kids in Chicago and paid for 20 children in Washington to attend a soccer camp.

"There but by the grace of God go I...."

We will never forget.

Flight 93 ... remembered this weekend

Ongoing throughout this weekend in Somerset, Pennsylvania, motorcycle riders from all over North America are gathering to remember the heroes, volunteers, and victims who lost their lives on 9/11. A field in rural PA was the ending of that tragic day ... the heroes of Flight 93 saved the White House by overtaking the terrorists which resulted in a crash at this site. Today riders will travel to the crash site and then to the Pentagon. Tomorrow they will depart from the Pentagon and travel to the site of the World Trade Center in NYC.

Never forget....