I was about 20 when 9/11 happened, and the thing that stopped me in my tracks and made me immediately doubt the whole thing was the Todd Beamer "let's roll" guy, who supposedly helped take the plane down in Pennsylvania. I realized, hmm...So the plane that was headed for the most important target, the white house, was intercepted by a guy with a catch phrase? That his wife happened to overhear on a phone call with him? (If anyone is too young to remember, Todd Beamer's "Let's Roll", supposedly uttered before intercepting the terrorists, was proudly repeated by Americans as some patriotic phrase in the weeks following 9/11.) It sounded way too much to me like a movie plot that someone wrote in Hollywood; I knew it had to be bull. I would love to learn more about the wife; I have wondered if anyone has researched who she is and where she is now.
I was about 20 when 9/11 happened, and the thing that stopped me in my tracks and made me immediately doubt the whole thing was the Todd Beamer "let's roll" guy, who supposedly helped take the plane down in Pennsylvania. I realized, hmm...So the plane that was headed for the most important target, the white house, was intercepted by a guy with a catch phrase? That his wife happened to overhear on a phone call with him? (If anyone is too young to remember, Todd Beamer's "Let's Roll", supposedly uttered before intercepting the terrorists, was proudly repeated by Americans as some patriotic phrase in the weeks following 9/11.) It sounded way too much to me like a movie plot that someone wrote in Hollywood; I knew it had to be bull. I would love to learn more about the wife; I have wondered if anyone has researched who she is and where she is now.
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