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[Styphon]

Hi, All

May I offer my deepest admiration to the brave passengers on Flight 93, which may have been aimed at the White House.

Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, Mark Bingham and Thomas Burnett Jr., Lou Nacke and Donald Greene all decided to have a go at the terrorists. Todd was overheard on a mobile phone as he led the passengers up the aisle towards the murderers.

They REALLY ought to raise a memorial to those brave men, and I mean REALLY.

Styphon

 

[Cheyenne]

There has been talk of giving the passengers the Medal of Freedom. A high honor in America.

http://sites.netscape.net/presmedoffreed/award

"The Presidential Medal of Freedom is America's highest civilian award and, among all American honors, it ranks second to only the Congressional Medal of Honor—the nation's highest military award. This great honor is reserved for individuals the President deems to have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. Though it may be awarded for singular acts of momentous import, it is generally conferred only for a lifetime of service or at the conclusion of a distinguished career.
The award is "given only after careful thought, always sparingly so as not to debase its currency." In the thirty years from the award's creation by President Kennedy through the close of the Bush administration, three hundred recipients were accorded this high honor. Of these three hundred recipients, only Ellsworth Bunker was twice awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Since then, Colin Powell (who received the award from President Bush) was awarded a second Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton.


CREATION

The idea of an annual National Honors List had been a topic of discussion for some time when, on November 28, 1962, the Gallup organization released the results of an opinion poll on the topic. In the poll, Americans were asked if they thought it would be a good idea to establish a National Honors List to recognize individuals for outstanding contributions in the arts, science, letters, education, religion, community service, and other similar endeavors. The pollsters found overwhelming support for the idea among Americans at all levels of educational attainment and in all age groups. They also found support among big majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.
On February 22, 1963, less than three months after the poll was released, President Kennedy issued an Executive Order creating the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He created it by renaming and redesigning a previous award—the Medal of Freedom—and by broadening its scope to include persons who had made especially meritorious contributions "in all forms of endeavor that are touched with the public interest." The new award was to be presented in two degrees, the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction (the higher degree), and the Presidential Medal of Freedom."

 

[Kymberley]

Why talk about it, just do it.

Nothing in the last few days can stand up to the heroic efforts of these Americans to save their country from further assault.

The courage, honor, bravery, and unselfishness of their acts, is something that will live in my heart for the rest of my life.

I only wish I could be so sure I would make America as proud as those Men and Women did.

My tears for them have yet to stop.

Thank you to all the families left behind, they must have been wonderful people to have been loved as much as they were by those passengers so willing to die for us all.

We need to remember them all in our prayers.