Sixth Grade
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Heroes of September 11
Caption: President and Mrs. Bush participate in a wreath-laying ceremony in Pennsylvania for the victims of Flight 93 on the one-year anniversary of the crash. White House photo by Tina Hager.
On September 11, 2001, a group of passengers boarded United Airlines Flight 93 in Newark, New Jersey, prepared to take off at 8:00 A.M. All were headed to San Francisco for various reasons. Heavy air traffic delayed the takeoff until 8:45 that morning. A murderous timeline had already been set into motion by terrorists with the bombing of the World Trade Center. The Pentagon was the next to be hit.
By around 9:30 A.M. that morning, four Arab men who were among the passengers had taken control of UAL Flight 93. They diverted its course. It was aiming straight for the United States capital, Washington, D.C. The terrorists tied red bandanas around their heads and announced they had a bomb aboard the plane. The thirty-three passengers were sent to the back of the plane. The only records of the terror aboard Flight 93 are the phone calls made by many of the passengers. The cell and GTE Airfone conversations were the only source of information that revealed the heroism of at least four of UAL Flight 93's passengers: Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham, and Jeremy Glick.
