They’re asking to talk to you.ĭeena: I called your parents. They’re sitting at the table having breakfast. Fourth cell phone call to Tom to Deenaĭeena: They’re fine. Tom: They’re talking about crashing this plane into the ground. I think they’re just telling us that for crowd control.ĭeena: A plane can survive a bomb if it’s in the right place.ĭeena: Yes, they didn’t know anything about your plane. Tom: What is the probability of their having a bomb on board? I don’t think they have one. I haven’t heard them say which airline, but all of them have originated on the east coast. They believe all of them are commercial planes. What else can you tell me?ĭeena: They think five airplanes have been hijacked. Tom: (tells people sitting around him “They just hit the Pentagon.”) (I thought at this point he had just survived the Pentagon plane crash). Third cell phone call from Tom to Deenaĭeena: Tom, you’re O.K. I don’t see anything, we’re over a rural area. No, wait, we’re turning back the other way. We’re going back to the World Trade Center. Tom: O.K….O.K….Do you know who is involved? No one knows.ĭeena: They’re not sure, at least three. The newsreporters are speculating cargo planes, private planes and commercial. Do you know which airline is involved?ĭeena: No, they don’t know if they’re commercial airlines or not. (a pause) … It’s a suicide mission…(he then tells people sitting around him) Tom: They’re talking about crashing this plane. They’ve already hit both towers of the World Trade Center. They are taking them and hitting designated targets. I tried to help him, but I couldn’t get a pulse.ĭeena: Tom, they are hijacking planes all up and down the east coast.
He hung up.Ħ:34 The phone rang in on call waiting, Tom’s second cell phone call.
The hijackers have already knifed a guy, one of them has a gun, they are telling us there is a bomb on board, please call the authorities. It’s United Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco. I’m on an airplane that has been hijacked.ĭeena: Where are you? Are you in the air? I hope you won’t either.Ħ:27 a.m.( pacific time) First cell phone call from Tom to Deena They were spoken seventeen years ago, under conditions I hope to never experience. Those exact words are at the top of this page, and the bottom. And his last words to his wife, Deena, are among the most inspiring I’ve ever heard. Tom’s last act on earth was one of the most courageous things imaginable. I might have gone with this guy – Tom Burnett. But if I was going to put someone’s face on a billboard – someone who epitomized bravery and sacrifice – I might have gone another way, especially this time of year.
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Nike’s free to celebrate whomever they wish, and Kaepernick is entitled to his opinion – kneeling, standing, or lying down. In the case of the Kaepernick ad, that person is Mike Rowe.Īccording to a recent Facebook post, a fan of Rowe’s noticed his silence on the issue and asked for his thoughts. These jokes are understandable and have become a part of normal life in the charged political realm in which we live.īut sometimes someone rises above the fray in a calm, reasoned, and adult-like manner and helps us to see these political fracases for what they really are. #JustDoIt /SRWkMIDdaOįollowing the ad, Nike stock plunged and conservatives had a heyday making knock-off memes, inserting the images of their favorite Democratic whipping boys, including Barack Obama, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the infamous Anthony Weiner. By now, you’ve probably heard all about Colin Kaepernick’s Nike ad, which ran as follows:īelieve in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.
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