The ceremony will be livestreamed on the police department’s Facebook page instead. But this year’s ceremony is closed to the general public because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, said Andrea Litchfield, a spokeswoman for the Hilliard Division of Police.
Todd Beamer’s name is on the granite wall at Hilliard’s First Responders Park, where the city will stage its annual memorial at 7 p.m. The 32-year-old father of two sons - and whose wife, Lisa, was pregnant with their third child - was among the four passengers who organized other passengers to retake the plane from the hijackers, ultimately causing its crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, about 20 minutes away from the its likely intended target, believed to be the U.S. Todd Beamer was among the passengers on the fourth airline - United Airlines Flight 93 en route from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco. 11, 2001, when 19 terrorists hijacked four airlines, crashing two into the World Trade Center towers, one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the fourth into a barren field about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. His only son, Todd Beamer, was among the 2,977 people killed Sept.
It is a call to action: to do the right thing at the right time.David Beamer can find blessings in places where they aren’t readily apparent. Todd’s “Let’s roll” became the motto of our country’s counterattack.īut David Beamer stresses that “Let’s roll” is more than simply a motto.
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Todd’s dad David sees the Lord’s hand in the delay of Flight 93, which allowed the passengers to know the full extent of the danger they were in and to take action based on this knowledge. They understood their plane was probably going to be used, like the other three, to carry out another attack, and they wanted to prevent that. Jefferson overheard Todd and fellow passengers planning to confront the hijackers. “He was calm through the entire conversation,” said Jefferson, “and I tried to stay just as calm with him.” Todd told Jefferson about the hijacking he asked her to tell his wife he loved her and their family they prayed the Lord’s Prayer together.įor thirteen minutes, the line stayed open. Passengers and flight attendants huddling in the rear of the plane used in-flight phones to contact their loved ones and officials on the ground.Todd, trying to call his wife Lisa on one of the plane’s phones, was routed to customer service, and he spoke with GTE supervisor Lisa Jefferson. The pilots of Flight 93 were informed of the crash and the two that followed only moments before four hijackers on their flight took over the cockpit and cabin.
He would take the early flight from Newark to San Francisco, attend his meeting, and fly back that night.īut Todd Beamer ’87 never made it back to his wife, Lisa, their two young sons, David and Drew, and their unborn child.ĭelayed more than 40 minutes on the runway, Flight 93 took off only four minutes before an American Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center (WTC).
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