Flight 93

Everyone has probably read things like this before, but in my opinion this is worth another read.

Of course, given today's media, some of the information herein may be inaccurate. If true though, it certainly does render laughable the notions that I used to hear from American Leftists:

- that the passenger uprising was all a myth

- that there really is no proof that any uprising occurred

- that hijackers may have caused the crash while struggling among themselves after some learned what only their leaders knew - that that day's mission was a suicide mission

Whatever. My intuition tells me the passengers knew they would die if they did nothing. They knew they'd be likely to die if they acted. The only question was would they hasten their deaths by acting to save others on the ground? All jokes about the unending messes in Congress aside - how would things have been different if Flight 93 had reached the Capitol and had killed, say, 200 Congressmen and Congresswomen? What if it had hit the White House?

Anyway - it's worth a reread for those who imagine the best of their fellow Americans.

The Final Moments of United Flight 93