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Flight 93 was the last of the hijacked planes to meet its fate. All three passengers knew about the attacks on the World Trade Center. Did they do what we think they did? Did three strangers on a flight in distress band together to fight their captors and ditch the Boeing 757 before it could harm untold thousands...
...voices do not comfort us with the illusion that these victims died instantly, ignorant of their fate. Quite the contrary. They give us a script to run through in our minds. The victims moved past denial into acceptance at breakneck speed, which meant they understood clearly--more clearly than we--what was happening. Perhaps that's why the hijackers, as some reports have suggested, urged some passengers to call home--quite aware that the drama would inflame our despair...
...Garrard's sister said he escaped death by "sheer fluke... He was late leaving home because he had to make some calls, then he took the bins out and had to catch a later train." Such are the mundane "run of events," as Garrard later called them, that change fate. He arrived at work an hour and 10 minutes later than usual and was waiting for the elevator when Flight 11 crashed. Few people who worked as high as 97 survived. "He lost a lot of friends," says his wife Bridgette. "He's completely devastated...
Among those evacuated last week were relatives of two American aid workers on trial here, accused of preaching Christianity. After traveling 10,000 miles to a country where few dare to venture, the parents had to leave their daughters behind to an uncertain fate. Waiting to board a U.N. plane for Islamabad, Deborah Oddy, mother of Heather Mercer, 24, wore a black head scarf and sobbed uncontrollably. Since the Soviet invasion in 1979, this country has seen more than its share of tears. Now the frightened residents of Kabul are worried that this latest incident will bring on even more...
...fate would have it, such was the case...