“On a random day, on a random flight, they found themselves – unwarned, unprepared, unarmed – on the front lines of a vicious new kind of war. And somehow, in the few confusing and terrifying minutes they had, they transformed themselves from people on a plane into soldiers, and they fought back. And that made them heroes…” Dave Barry —On Hallowed GroundMiami Herald)
Barry, best known as a humorist, writes a thoughtful tribute to the passengers of Flight 93.
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