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==September 11 attacks== [[File:Todd Beamer WTC.jpg|thumb|Todd Beamer's name on Panel S-68 of the [[National September 11 Memorial]]'s South Pool.]] On September 11, 2001, [[Todd Beamer]], a passenger on the [[aircraft hijacking|hijacked]] [[United Airlines Flight 93]], tried to place a call through an air phone, but he was routed to a customer service representative instead, who passed him on to supervisor Lisa Jefferson. Beamer reported that one passenger had been killed and that a flight attendant had told him that both the pilot and co-pilot had been forced from the cockpit and may have been injured. He was also on the phone when the plane made a quick and violent turn. Later, he told the operator that some of the other passengers were planning to attack the hijackers and regain control of the aircraft, after they learned about what happened at the [[World Trade Center (1973-2001)|World Trade Center]] and [[The Pentagon]]. According to Jefferson, Beamer's last audible words were "Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."<ref>{{cite news <!--EXISTING REFERENCE--> |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20010916phonecallnat3p3.asp |url-status=dead |title=The phone line from Flight 93 was still open when a GTE operator heard Todd Beamer say: 'Are you guys ready? Let's roll' |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=September 16, 2001 | first1=Jim | last1=McKinnon |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416054925/https://old.post-gazette.com/headlines/20010916phonecallnat3p3.asp |archive-date=April 16, 2022}}</ref> In a November 8 address from the [[World Congress Center]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] invoked Beamer's words: "Some of our greatest moments have been acts of courage for which no one could have been prepared. But we have our marching orders. My fellow Americans, let's roll!"<ref name=AmNatBiography>Evensen, Bruce J. (2000). [http://www.anb.org/articles/20/20-01916-print.html "Beamer, Todd Morgan"]. ''[[American National Biography]]''. Retrieved May 14, 2014.</ref> He used them again in the [[2002 State of the Union address]]: "For too long our culture has said, 'If it feels good, do it.' Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: 'Let's roll.{{'"}}<ref name="BushSpeeches">{{cite web|last1=Bush|first1=George W.|title=Selected Speeches of President George W. Bush 2001 β 2008|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/bushrecord/documents/Selected_Speeches_George_W_Bush.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527183240/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/bushrecord/documents/Selected_Speeches_George_W_Bush.pdf |archive-date=2010-05-27 |url-status=live|website=The [[White House]] of [[George W. Bush]]|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration|access-date=9 September 2016}}</ref>
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