A Good Kiwi Bloke, in the cockpit, stopping the only plane which didn't get to the target. Thanks to CDMA [and other cellphones] phones linking passengers to their families, plus a bunch of passengers who realized they'd better not find out where the hijackers planned to crash them.
He deserves the thanks of a grateful USA, and me.
We now know that Flight 93 was intended to crash into the dome of the US capitol building. For the past year, every time I see the capitol, I tell it goodbye in my mind. It's been a painful year, but I've learned to live with the idea that it may not be there forever.
But you know what? It's just a building. Symbolic, yes, but the symbol is not the thing itself. The terrorists could destroy the entire city of Washington, D.C., and the entire city of New York, and we'd hardly miss a beat. It would not be like ripping out our heart, more like cutting the tail off a lizard. We'd grow it back. |
