Shorty after noon on 9/11 a friend handed the phone to Lisa Beamer. The voice on the phone said, "Mrs. Beamer, my name is Nick Leonard from United Airlines. I'm sorry to inform you that your husband, Todd, was a passenger aboard Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania." Lisa turned to her friends, who had come to her home to support her and the children, and said, "That was United calling. Todd was definitely on the plane taken over by terrorists; the one that was on the way to Washington, but that crashed in Pennsylvania." Her husband, Todd, had kissed her good by early that same morning as he prepared to catch an early morning flight to California. The plane had been taken over by terrorists shortly after it took off. After traveling west for some time, the terrorists turned the plane around and by the time a group of brave passengers attacked the hijackers, the plane was heading back east, toward Washington DC. Two other planes had been hijacked and had been flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York. One more had been crashed into the Pentagon. Flight 93, on which Todd Beamer was traveling, was brought down in a crash on a Pennsylvania farm.Two days later, on September 13, Larry Elison, sent out an e-mail to all employees of Oracle Corporation, saying, "Todd Beamer, an employee of Oracle Corporation died when Flight 93 crashed. We believe that he died when he and other passengers tried to recover the hijacked airplane from the terrorists...Todd's courageous actions may have helped keep the airplane from reaching its target-our nation's Capitol. Todd and other passengers probably helped save the lives of many in Washington DC."(see "Let's Roll" by Lisa Beamer, Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois. 2002. p. 184).
Nick Leonard called Lisa, Todd's wife, reporting to her that the FBI had confirmed that during the flight Todd Beamer had called on the GTE Airfone aboard the plane. The call went to a GTE supervisor, Lisa Jefferson. Todd had told her that he and some other passengers were going to fight their way into the cockpit and try to overcome the terrorists. He had asked her to get a message to his wife, Lisa Beamer, telling her that he loved her, and then asked the supervisor to pray with him. Together, they prayed the Lord's prayer, which Todd concluded with "Jesus, help me!" Then Todd's call was interrupted by one of his associates, and Todd's last words were recorded as he called to the small group, planning to stop the hijackers, "Let's roll!" A minute later, at 9:28, the Cleveland controllers clearly heard screams over the open mike aboard Flight 93. Then, just before the plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, the controllers heard a voice in English, demanding "Get out of here! Get out of here!"
Scriptural Guide: "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." -Jesus(John 15:13)
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Todd Beamer's memorial service was held on 09/16/01 at the Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro, New Jersey. Todd Beamer's wife, Lisa Beamer, a grieving mother of two and four months pregnant with her third child, registers TODDBEAMER.ORG four days later on 09/20/01, incorporates The Todd M. Beamer Memorial Foundation eight days later on 9/24/01 and then applies for the trademark "Let's Roll" ten days later on 9/26/01. Instead of acting like a wife and mother who should be experiencing untold grief and loss her behavior turns a catastrophic personal tragedy into a cold and calculating cheap publicity stunt. But then the U S Government's 9/11 propaganda machine needed heroes as well as villains paraded through the media.
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