Word: beamer
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Before he caught united airlines flight 93 from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco on Sept. 11, Todd Beamer was engaged in a kind of soul searching that we have come to think of as very post-9/11. In Among the Heroes (HarperCollins), New York Times reporter Jere Longman writes that Beamer was tired of leaving his family for business. He was working at home more often. He had postponed his sales trip by one day to spend time with his sons and planned, after a day's work, to catch the red-eye home that night...
...world may have seen its last airplane hijacking for a while - another unintended and unexpected consequence of Sept. 11. Once an essential tool of terrorists, hijackings will be next to impossible as a result of improved security and the general public's vigilance. The heroism of passengers like Todd Beamer on United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania means that would-be hijackers will be thwarted by the fury of fellow travelers. People like Beamer have helped start a new trend: ordinary people as the new celebrities...
...didn't want to sit on the sidelines at a time like this. Last week Green Beret Nathan Ross Chapman was buried by his family: we met his widow Renae on the Today show, saw the broken-heart necklace that he had given her. And last week Lisa Beamer, widow of Todd, hero of Flight 93, had her baby, Morgan Kay, 7 lbs., 21 in. We saw the first baby pictures...
...deeds and not words, Beamer would probably find the "Let's roll" sensation a little strange. His widow hopes the tchotchkes don't cheapen the message behind the two words: "It's about standing up for what you believe in and taking action without thought to the personal consequences." How about printing those words on some coffee mugs...
...Todd Beamer and the three men who are assumed to have challenged the hijackers of Flight 93, perhaps saving the White House, was hailed by readers who called him "a real guy who put others first," who "disputed the thoughts that we are fat, spoiled, shallow, and complacent...