I reread this every year.
I cry like a baby every year.
Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
@CincyNumbers My son was born August 17, 2017. 9 years ago yesterday. We go to 6-8 games a year and he has had uncanny luck when going to Reds games. His FIRST game was Elly Cycle. He saw Elly’s first Grand Slam at home. Nick Martinez’s near no-hitter.
He’s clearly their good luck charm.
"If you want the American dream, you have to take the American values."
Bill Maher unloads on immigrants who refuse to assimilate, arguing America can welcome different food, languages, religions and traditions without compromising what he calls its fundamental values.
"You have to answer one question: Do you like Western civilization? Because that's what we are. And that's not negotiable."
Maher says welcoming immigrants doesn't mean accepting every cultural practice they bring with them, drawing a hard line at honor killings, polygamy and female genital mutilation. He argues protecting liberal values isn't racist, saying "people fought and died to establish them" and some things are "too fundamental to change."
What's happening in Spain should be a warning to every American who may have forgotten about what our borders looked like the last time Democrats were in power: All it takes is one election for your nation to become unrecognizable.
🚨 Elon just nuked the entire media playbook in under 90 seconds.
Journalist: “You support the far-right!”
Elon: “No. You support the lunatic left.
What was completely normal 10-15 years ago is now called ‘far-right’…
because your side went completely insane.”
Safe cities. Secure borders. Biological reality. Common sense.
None of that is “far-right.”
It’s just not crazy.
The Overton window didn’t shift right.
The left sprinted off a cliff and started calling everyone who didn’t jump “extremists.”
Elon said it out loud.
And the media still can’t cope.
Lunatic left.
He’s 100% right.
@elonmusk 👏🏻
A tourist was seriously injured after a bison tossed them about 8 feet into the air in Yellowstone National Park. The attack was captured on video by photographer Mike Macleod.
Practically everyone I talk to is done with toxic divisive politics.
They hate both sides because both sides are failures.
Yes people still hold their core beliefs but they are fed up with the drama.
All people want is their government to shut the F up and make Americans lives good.
Thats it. Just that.
Goodbye, friends, from Augusta Georgia!
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There are moments that offer a pretty good sense that something new is going to work. This feels like one for ABS. The Cincinnati crowd’s reaction was thunderous. And the situation itself — twice it salvaged a bases-loaded opportunity. This system plays.
Absolutely electric lmao CB Buckner noticeably annoyed when he tapped the 2nd time only to be wrong again and listen to 40,000 people cheer for his incompetence 😂
Hard to think of a less popular vision for the future than robot teachers replacing humans in classrooms.
The Trump administration have completely lost touch with where people are at on AI as they become more and more beholden to Big Tech.
@forestfrank No because dispensationalism was made up in the 1800’s and the rapture isn’t real. Jesus will return one time. It will be big. It will be loud. And no one is disappearing like the left behind novels. Look at what the historical church believed for two millennia.