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...they compete--but Hilary was nonetheless excited and asked Ginny if she could wear a smudge of her glittery pink lip gloss. Sanderson, who also coaches Hilary's basketball team, took the stage and nervously riffled through a stack of note cards. He started off by talking about Lisa Beamer and the crash of Flight 93. Then he said, "Those passengers taught us all something about victory... And this season, you girls have taught me something about victory. You never moaned or groaned or complained, and by continuing to fight on the court, you helped us all forget a little...
...driving. A car came over a rise with its lights on high beam. Half-blinded, my father's colleague instinctively pulled off the road. He hit a parked trailer, almost sheering the car in half. My father died; the driver was unhurt. I don't know if the high-beamer even stopped...
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...
...Instead, Beamer added "Let's roll" to the patriotic lexicon when he and his fellow passengers attacked the hijackers, who intended to crash the jet in Washington. As they struggled, the plane went down in a Pennsylvania field, killing all on board. Flight 93 became the Warsaw Uprising of 9/11, a national blueprint for resistance and a tonic against helplessness...
...another reason the story resonates so deeply is that many of us are in Beamer's position. Since Sept. 11, we've told ourselves that facing our mortality changed our attitudes toward work and life. Yet here we are, still working in those office towers, still catching those planes. This is the paradox of our post-9/11 "reprioritizing": America--credit-addicted, 25-brands-of-toothpaste-on-the-shelf America--cannot afford for us to examine our lives too closely. Our way of life is predicated on our not taking stock; not getting off the career-overtime-promotion hamster wheel...