“Let’s Roll “Those words have become America’s favorite and bittersweet bumper sticker. They w
“Let’s Roll “Those words have become America’s favorite and bittersweet bumper sticker. They were used by President Bush to dispatch his bombers to the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan They are also the words that closed a remarkable conversation on September 11, 2001, between a man called Todd Beamer and Lisa Jefferson, a telephone switchboard operator. The words are: ‘Let’s Roll’.Jefferson was in a suburb of Chicago, at the headquarters of the GTE phone company, when she took the call that, she now says, changed her life. Beamer, the caller, was aboard the hijacked and doomed United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco.Beamer and other passengers decided to take on the hijackers and wrest control of the plane. The recent release of tapes from the cockpit voice recorder indicates just how close they came to doing so. United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four Al-Qaeda terrorists on board, as part of the September 11 attacks. It crashed into a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, during an attempt by the passengers and crew to regain control. All 44 people aboard were killed, including the four hijackers. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/dec/02/september11.terrorism1 -- source link