I’m wondering what all my elitist friends think of this one 😉 When I’d heard that flight 93 had crash landed in southwestern Pennsylvanian farm country, I could think of no more plausible explanation than passenger resistance (though I was surprised by the cellular phone element). See also the gang-tackling of the individual trying to light his shoes.
I think that the idea that e pluribus there arises unum, or a few unos, and that these people are not so very different from the rest of us, gives me more faith in humanity than terrorism has taken away, and underscores our lack of need for massively increased security measures.
http://www.livejournal.com/talkpost.bml?journal=politicsforum&itemid=18739
points to
http://www.scifi.com/tribute/citizens_as_soldiers.html