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Title: Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back by Jere Longman ISBN: 0-06-009908-9 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (47 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: We Cannot Hallow This Ground
Comment: I heard the author interviewed on National Public Radio recently, bought the book immediately and read it straight through. I hardly know what to say about the book lest I trivialize such a horrible event in our nation's history. Mere words become cliches in the face of such courage and bravery of the passangers and crew of United Flight 93.
Two things jumped out at me when I read this book. First, several of the passengers and/or friends or relatives had premonitions that they should not take this flight. Second, many of the passengers changed their flight plans at the last minute and got on this plane because there were so many empty seats.
I was also taken by the diversity of those aboard. (After all, wasn't that one of the problems of the misguided monsters, that they did not believe in the diversity of the U. S.?) There were Caucasians, African Americans, a Puerto-Rican American, a Japanese student, a gay man, a married Baptist couple, Jewish folk, a disabled person, older people, young people, people on vacation, others on work assignments.
The book is extremely well written although I suspect that it almost wrote itself. I do not mean to take anything away from Mr. Longman, but a writer would have to work hard to make such a tragic event uninteresting. He includes photographs of the crew and passengers and fleshes out their lives. One passenger is on his way to pick up the remains of a loved one. Another passenger we find out collects refrigerator magnets from cities she has visited, a fact that made we smile since I have the same quirk.
Although these 40 people lost their lives, they did not go gentle. From the flight attendant who boiled water to throw on these devils to the other passengers who apparently stormed the cockpit, surely they are the best of our country's best citizens. There are goverment officials walking around Washington today who most assuredly owe their lives to these valiant passengers and crew.
One final thing. The people who got to the plane after it crashed in that field in Pennsylvania said that had they not known better, they would have thought the plane was empty, that it was as if the plane had made a previous landing and let off all the passengers. And I learned a chilling new phrase. The official cause of death of these passengers and crew was "death by fragmentation."
It is fitting that someone in this book compared the resting place of these good people to Gettysburg. In the words of our greatest orator: "We cannot hallow this ground."
Rating: 5
Summary: An INCREDIBLE Story!
Comment: This book goes through every detail of Flight 93. Every passenger and the hijackers. It's amazing how many people had premonitions before they took that flight. Some had changed from a 10:00 flight to the earlier 8:00 flight. Some were afraid to fly. The author brings each person to life, to appreciate the tremendous loss of so many that day. Almost every passenger was a type A personality. There was immense talent and courage onboard and after reading the accounts of their lives, it's clear to see why they went down fighting. Every person's story was compelling from Todd Beamer's to Nicole Miller's. Nicole had tried to get on another flight that morning with her boyfriend as she was apprehensive about flying. His flight was booked so he tried to get on her flight but it was too expensive. The what ifs could drive you crazy. Warning: You won't be able to put it down. We've heard that saying "It's a small world," and the author proves it at the very beginning tying different passengers and their families together in unusual ways. The author has done a tremendous job of compiling facts and loved ones accounts to make this a book I will remember for a very long time.
Rating: 5
Summary: unbelievable, very emotional
Comment: This was truly one of the best books i have ever read, the author does a fantastic job of describing each and every passenger, most to the point where you feel a very strong
connection to them. Very emotional, and definitly have to say if you could read this one without shedding any tears, your a stronger person than me.
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Title: Let's Roll: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage by Lisa Beamer, Ken Abraham ISBN: 0842374183 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Out of the Blue: A Narrative of September 11, 2001 by Richard Bernstein, Staff of the New York Times ISBN: 0805072403 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 11 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: What We Saw: The Events of September 11, 2001-In Words, Pictures, and Video by Cbs News ISBN: 0743241908 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 by Mitchell Fink, Lois Mathias ISBN: 0060514337 Publisher: ReganBooks Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Portraits: 9/11/01: The Collected "Portraits of Grief" from The New York Times by Howell Raines, Janny Scott, the New York Times, Gloria Emerson ISBN: 0805072225 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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