I don’t think we’re going to get out of this thing. I’m going to have to go out on faith.

On September 11, 2001 my wife, my 3 year old daugher and I were home enjoying the arrival of our new adopted son who was three weeks old at the time. Only a week before my wife had made the return flight home from Florida and my daughter and I had flown home the previous week.  Our biggest concern had been the normal summer turbulence over the deep south.

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Todd Beamer had a wife and children and a baby on the way. Thankfully, they were not with him on Flight 93 when it was hijacked by Muslim extremists. And thanks to the actions of Todd Beamer and others with him, there were a few less widows and orphans on that terrible day. Beamer and his associates discovered that day what all of us should understand.  That at any moment, we may be called upon to stand up and face down evil.

Thanks to Todd Beamer for answering the call. And may America always have such fine men and women to stand up for the innocent.