Flight 93

Something that has always bugged me is that in the aftermath of 9/11, the story about how the passengers Flight 93 managed to take down the plane into a PA field was never the huge deal I thought it would/should. In essence, they potentially saved anywhere from hundreds of lives, the president's, half of congress, or who knows depending on where the plan was to crash the plane.

So why isn't that #1 story about 9/11 behind the Towers collapsing? On a normal news day, we search for heroes like bears for food. Ripping through the actual story in order to get 1 morsel of uplifting goodness. I would have thought that in the time after 9/11, American's would have rallied behind the fight back spirit of that flight and that it would have been used as a symbol by politicians. But it wasn't. I see a few "Let's Roll" bumper stickers, but I have no idea of the names of any of the people on that flight. And I should. They did more to help us from a complete post 9/11 free fall than Cindy Sheenan ever did, yet she's a hero whose name I know and the people on the PA flight are faceless and nameless to me.

Imagine if that plane does hit the Capital building. Our greatest symbols of Commerce, Government, and Defense all stuck in the same day. And the Capital building has 100% for symbolic value than the Pentagon does.

I'm sure the answer has to do it being a sign of the times. No video, no audio, no story. If it can't be replayed ad nauseam, then it just doesn't make the impact. All we had were accounts from relatives and I think there was a black box tape that was released too long after for the normal public to care.

Well, I think that might change:

Flight 93


Most people may say its too soon for a movie like this. I say it’s not soon enough. Depending on the slant the director takes, I think it may bring to the forefront how important this story should be in our memory of 9/11. I trust the director to do this correctly. I saw Bloody Sunday; another pseudo-documentary by Greengrass that I thought was very well done. Time will tell, I guess.