Welles Crowther, 24, was an equities trader on the 104th floor of the South Tower. He’d carried a red bandana since he was six and volunteered as a firefighter as a teen.
On September 11, after the plane hit, he called his mother to say he was okay. Then he went to the 78th-floor sky lobby, covered his face with the bandana, and led people to the last open stairwell. He carried one burned woman down 17 flights, went back up, led another group out, and went up again.
The tower fell at 9:59 a.m. He didn’t come back. Survivors later identified him by the red bandana and said he saved as many as 18 lives. His body was found in the lobby with FDNY firefighters. He’d been planning to join them for real.
Never Forget 🙏🏻🇺🇸
"Let's Roll" --Remembering September 11
On Flight 93 they had minutes, butter knives, and a phone line.
Todd Beamer prayed the Lord’s Prayer and said, “Let’s roll.” Jeremy Glick (Jewish btw) told his wife they were going to rush the cockpit. Tom Burnett and Mark Bingham were in that same vote. Ordinary men—sales, PR, a new father, a church volunteer—decided they would die on their feet so Washington would not.
Across the aisle were Ziad Jarrah, Ahmed al-Haznawi, Ahmed al-Nami, and Saeed al-Ghamdi. They boarded with a plan: murder the crew, fly a loaded jet into the Capitol or the White House.
One side charged the door. The other side had already chosen slaughter.
In the ensuing struggle, the plane went down in a Pennsylvania field. The Capitol and the White House still stand.
Remember the names of the men who ran forward, Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, Tom Burnett and Mark Bingham. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.” (Psalm 23:4). May their memories be a blessing. "Let’s roll."
His wife gave him the information that changed everything.
Tom Burnett was aboard United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, when he called his wife, Deena.
At first, he was trying to understand what was happening.
Then she told him about the planes that had already crashed into the World Trade Center.
Burnett realized something terrifying.
The people who had taken Flight 93 were not simply trying to hijack the plane.
They intended to use it as a weapon.
Burnett called his wife several times that morning.
He asked her to contact authorities and pass along what he knew.
Then came the decision that would define his final minutes.
He and several other passengers were going to fight back.
Burnett told Deena they were going to rush the hijackers.
He knew what that meant.
He knew there was a strong possibility he would never see his wife or his three young daughters again.
But the passengers had learned what had happened to the other planes.
They understood what was waiting for them if they did nothing.
At 10:03 a.m., Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The passengers never reached the hijackers' intended destination.
The exact target has never been conclusively established, although the U.S. Capitol is widely considered the likely target based on investigative findings and intelligence.
Tom Burnett was 38 years old.
He had a wife.
Three daughters.
A career.
A home waiting for him.
And one final phone call that ended with words meant for the people he loved.
“I love you. I love the girls.”
He never called back.
The passengers of Flight 93 knew they were probably not going to survive.
They fought anyway.
And somewhere inside that final decision was a simple calculation:
If we are going to de, we are not going to let them choose who else des with us.
Tom Burnett's name is permanently connected to that moment.
But outside the memorial and the history books, many people have never heard it.
He wasn't a soldier.
He wasn't a politician.
He was a husband and father who learned that his country was under attack...
and decided to fight back.
**He had three daughters waiting for him.
He chose to protect a nation they would have to grow up in without him.** 🇺🇸❤️
So many stories…His voicemail message brought tears…
The voice behind those steady, heartbreaking words belonged to Brian David Sweeney, a 38-year-old former U.S. Navy pilot, defense contractor, and devoted husband from Spencer, Massachusetts. On the morning of September 11, 2001, he boarded United Airlines Flight 175 out of Boston, bound for Los Angeles.
Brian was a man who lived with an effortless, calm warmth. A charismatic athlete and born leader, he had spent years flying jets for the military before transitioning into defense consulting. He loved the outdoors, loved his family fiercely, and was deeply in love with his wife, Julie, a high school teacher.
When hijackers stormed the cockpit of Flight 175 shortly after takeoff, forcing the plane into a sharp turn toward New York City, Brian didn't panic. Drawing on his military training and instincts, he made his way toward an Airfone on the back of a seatback.
At 8:59 a.m., he dialed home. Julie was at work, teaching her class, so the call went to their answering machine.
With quiet composure, knowing the nightmare unfolding around him, Brian didn't fill his final words with fear or anger. Instead, he stripped life down to its absolute essence: love, permission to be happy, and peace. He left that brief, three-sentence message, a testament to selfless devotion, before placing a second call to his mother, Louise, telling her that the passengers were considering storming the cockpit to retake the plane.
Minutes later, at 9:03 a.m., Flight 175 struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
In the years since, Julie Sweeney Roth shared Brian’s voicemail with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. What could have been a private tragedy became a beacon of grace under fire. His message stands as one of the most poignant artifacts of that day, a reminder that when faced with ultimate darkness, the final impulse of the human spirit is pure, unshakeable love.
@itsrosesm He’s not the root. He’s the fruit of the tree that was planted long ago. The roots go back decades. That tree grew and we were told it was harmless and didn’t need to be cut down. That it would never produce fruit that was poisonous.
Can anyone tell me where else on Earth children are taught in kindergarten to kill Jews and Christians and become future terrorists in the name of jihad?
I only see it in Palestinian society.
Satan is not opposed to good morals.
He’s opposed to Jesus Christ.
Read that again because most Christians miss this completely.
Satan doesn’t care if you’re a “good person.” He doesn’t care if you volunteer at the food bank, recycle your trash, and help old ladies cross the street. He doesn’t care if you’re kind, generous, and well-liked by everyone in your community.
He cares that you don’t bow the knee to Jesus.
Here’s the deception that’s damning millions:
Satan has convinced people that morality equals spirituality. That being a “good person” is the same as being a Christian. That if you just live right, treat people well, and avoid the “big sins,” you’re acceptable to God.
This is a lie straight from the pit of hell.
The Pharisees had impeccable morals. They followed the law meticulously. They were respected, disciplined, and religiously devoted.
Jesus called them children of the devil.
Why? Not because their morals were bad. Because their morals replaced Christ.
Satan’s greatest trick isn’t making bad people worse. It’s making good people think they don’t need a Savior.
Think about it:
The atheist who feeds the homeless thinks he’s good enough without God.
The Buddhist who meditates and practices compassion thinks she’s enlightened without Christ.
The Muslim who prays five times daily thinks he’s righteous without Jesus.
The moral Christian who goes to church, pays his tithe, and avoids scandal thinks he’s saved without surrender.
All of them are headed to the same place: eternal separation from God.
Because morality doesn’t save. Jesus saves.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9
Satan loves moral people who reject Jesus. They’re his best advertisement for the lie that you can earn your way to heaven.
They’re living proof that you can:
•Be kind without Christ
•Be generous without God
•Be disciplined without the Holy Spirit
•Be respected without redemption
And still be lost.
The most dangerous people in hell won’t be the murderers and rapists. They’ll be the moral, upstanding citizens who thought their goodness was good enough.
Their morals became their idol. Their goodness became their god.
And Satan smiled because he’d accomplished his goal: Keep them from Jesus.
Here’s what most Christians don’t understand:
Satan doesn’t need to make you do bad things. He just needs to keep you from doing the ONE thing that matters: surrendering to Christ.
If he can get you to:
•Trust your morals instead of Christ’s sacrifice
•Rely on your goodness instead of God’s grace
•Believe in your works instead of Jesus’ finished work
He’s won.
You can live a moral life and still die lost. You can be a good person and still face judgment. You can avoid all the “big sins” and still end up separated from God forever.
Because the only sin that damns you eternally is rejecting Jesus Christ.
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” John 3:36
Not the murderer who repents and believes in Christ is damned.
Not the thief who turns to Jesus on the cross is damned.
Not the prostitute who washes Jesus’ feet with her tears is damned.
The moral, religious person who rejects Christ is damned.
That’s why Satan loves morality without Jesus. It sends people to hell with a smile on their face, convinced they were good enough.
Stop trusting your morals. Start trusting Jesus.
Your goodness won’t save you. Your works won’t redeem you. Your morality won’t justify you.
Only the blood of Jesus Christ can wash away your sin and make you acceptable to a holy God.
Everything else is just Satan’s distraction from the one thing that actually matters.
Survivors of the South Tower recall seeing people jump from the North.
This didn't just happen. This was inflicted on those people, this nation, by The Religion of Peace ™️.
And 25 years later NYC has a Muslim mayor and an al Qaeda lawyer as head counsel.
Quit letting this happen, America.
I have undertaken this project to put a face to 9/11 by posting a photo of everyone killed that day. If after everything that happened you can vote for the ideology that brought it about it's as if you are killing them yourself! Pictured below was 50 year old Myra Aronson who was aboard Flight 11 that crashed into the North Tower. She was the public relations manager for a computer corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts and she was on a business trip. Myra's boyfriend called her older sister and said that he thought she was aboard that flight which the family eventually confirmed. They have not identified any of her remains and to forget even a single one of these people is a blasphemy!