And I thought the same thing, suek. That woman appeared very young to have a husband who was in his 60s. Whatever their relationship, it appears that he cared for her a great deal by giving her the life jacket. I feel for them.

None of that ogling now… I guess we know why Obama wants everybody to go to college and get an education. Can’t have those guys out there building up muscle like those construction guys. Get them _good_ paying jobs with their college educations.

Of course, we’ll still have a problem…who’s going to do the construction stuff? why would a guy with a degree want to be out there getting slung from a crane to rescue a fair damsel?? I mean….he didn’t even have a _tie_ on!

They said it was a married couple, and the man was in his 60s…

That woman does _not_ look to me like she’s in her 60s.

Of course, there was Nicole and her ninety year old husband – for a few years anyway…

Somehow or other the working class know that they must do things for themselves. It is for that reason when I worked in NYC I felt much safer riding the subway at 5:00am with the construction workers than at 8:00am with the “suits.” I always knew that if something were to happen the “suits” would all stand around waiting for someone else to do something while the construction workers would jump in to handle things themselves.

BTW, on 9/11 not only did firemen and police respond to the World Trade Center; But, it was reported that almost all construction sites around the city were abandoned as their workers all headed down to ground zero on that horrific day.

Beamer, 32, an account manager for Oracle, called a stranger. He picked up a seat-back phone and hit “0,” and at 9:45 a.m., he was connected first to a dispatcher for GTE Airfone, and then to Lisa Jefferson, the operator’s supervisor.

For 13 minutes, Beamer told Jefferson everything he could, passing along information he gleaned himself and from a flight attendant. The passengers remained in their seats, she said he told her, and the flight attendants were forced to sit in the back of the plane.

He told her how much he loved his pregnant wife and two sons, and he asked her to call them. He asked her to recite the Lord’s Prayer and 23rd Psalm with him.

Moments later, Beamer told Jefferson about the plan, that the passengers were going to run up the long, narrow aisle to the first-class cabin and attack the hijacker there.

“I’m going to have to go out on faith,” Beamer said.

He turned to someone else, and he said, “Are you ready?” Then, in the last words Jefferson would hear from him, “OK. Let’s roll.”

Just one of the incredible stories of heroism that day. Firefighters entering the towers, ignoring their own safety– so many examples.