"We're Going To Rush The Hijackers..."
Compelling minute-by-minute narrative of September 11's Flight 93, in tweets done today. Scroll to the bottom, start there, and read through to the top.
Lexington Green, at Chicago Boyz, where I found the link to the tweets, wrote this two years ago:
The only part of the American national security establishment that successfully defended America on 9/11 was the portion of the reserve militia on board Flight 93, acting without orders, without hierarchy, without uniforms or weapons, by spontaneous organization and action.The lesson I derived:
Bottom-up, inductive, spontaneous self-organization is the essence of America.
After a decade I can say we have wasted a decade failing to learn from that lesson.
We had better do better over the next decade.
Picture of Todd Beamer at the link -- the guy who said, "Are you guys ready? Let's roll."
There's a Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way, Washington (between Seattle and Tacoma).
The district's junior high students voted in 2003 to name the new high school after Beamer ... which is pretty cool if you think about it.
Here's a piece about them on the 10-year anniversary of 9/11.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/09/09/1816493/todd-beamer-high-school-students.html
jimg at September 13, 2011 11:35 PM
The gentlemen and ladies that were involved in the take down of Flight 93 are heroes.
Jim P. at September 15, 2011 5:05 AM
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