For Such a Moment as This

At 9:45 a. m. on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer, a thirty-two-year-old account manager from Cranbury, New Jersey, learned the terrible truth aboard United Flight 93. Through a call with GTE Airfone operator Lisa Jefferson, he and fellow passengers discovered that two planes had already struck the World Trade Center and another had hit the Pentagon. Their hijacked aircraft was a weapon aimed at the nation's capital.…