Leadership That Begins on Its Knees

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer was not a soldier. He was a thirty-two-year-old account manager from Cranbury, New Jersey — a husband, a father of two boys, with a third child on the way. He was active at Princeton Alliance Church. Nothing in his background prepared him for what unfolded aboard United Airlines Flight 93. When hijackers seized the Newark-to-San Francisco flight, Beamer and fellow passengers learned through phone calls that other planes had already struck the World Trade Center.…