From True Stories on Facebook:
Jeremy Glick was 31 when hijackers seized Flight 93 and threatened to blow it up. He called his wife, told her he loved her, learned the plane was part of a larger attack, and then helped organize the passengers to storm the cockpit.
Glick had no weapon.
He was not a soldier.
He was a sales manager, a husband and the father of a three-month-old daughter.
He was also a former national collegiate judo champion and black belt.
On September 11, 2001, Glick was flying from Newark to San Francisco for business.
Then the hijacking began.
The passengers were forced toward the back of the Boeing 757.
A hijacker claimed there was a bomb.
Another had a knife.
Glick called his mother-in-law's home and asked for his wife, Lyzbeth.
When she came on the line, he told her what was happening.
Then he told her something even worse.
He had learned about the attacks on the World Trade Center.
The plane wasn't simply being hijacked.
The passengers realized the aircraft could be turned into a weapon.
Glick told Lyzbeth that he and several other men were considering rushing the hijackers.
He asked what she thought.
She told him to do what he had to do.
Then the passengers began voting.
Fight back.
Or wait.
The decision was made.
They were going to take the cockpit.
Glick remained on the phone with his wife as the plan developed.
He told her he loved her.
Then the passengers moved.
Glick, Todd Beamer, Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham and others rushed toward the hijackers.
The cockpit voice recorder captured the struggle.
The plane began pitching violently.
At 10:03 a.m., Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Everyone aboard died.
But the plane never reached its intended target.
The 9/11 Commission concluded that the passengers' actions prevented the hijackers from completing their mission.
Glick's wife was left with their three-month-old daughter, Emmy.
He had called her knowing he might not come home.
He had told her he loved her.
Then he went forward.
Jeremy Glick boarded Flight 93 expecting a business trip.
Less than an hour later, he was deciding whether to fight four armed hijackers at 30,000 feet.
He knew the odds.
He knew there was a bomb.
He knew the plane was probably going to be used to kill more people.
And he still went.
He was 31.
He never came home.
But Flight 93 never reached its target.
Rest in peace and power, Dolly Parton. This extraordinary country music icon will be remembered for her distinctively positive energy, kindness, and infectious laughter. Thank you and live in peace in God’s kingdom 🪷❤️
In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. military is preparing for the first execution in more than 60 years — and Army Major Nidal Hasan is on the list.
Hasan carried out the 2009 Fort Hood massacre, killing 13 people (including an unborn child) and wounding more than 30 others while shouting “Allahu Akbar.” He targeted unarmed soldiers at a readiness processing center as they prepared for deployment.
He was convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder, stripped of his rank, and sentenced to death. He has been on death row at Fort Leavenworth for over a decade and has shown no remorse.
The Army has developed plans (including “Operation Resolute Justice”) to carry out military executions if authorized by the President. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has publicly expressed commitment to seeing Hasan’s death sentence carried out. Hasan’s final appeals have been exhausted.
If approved and carried out, it would mark the first U.S. military execution since 1961.
Thirteen American service members never came home because of Hasan’s jihadist attack on his own fellow soldiers. Justice has been delayed for far too long.