Lets Roll! essays

Lets Roll! essays The book Lets Roll is centered on the author Lisa Beamer and her husband, Todd Beamer and his heroic experience on September 11, 2001. It is about his life before the plane crashed in Pennsylvania, and how he helped to prevent the plane from reaching its intended target, and how his wife handled her life after his death. It also describes Lisa and Todds childhood, religious beliefs, dating and marriage years, and the beginning of their family. The book s title, Lets Roll, is now an important part of our English language since the 9-11 crash. The words, Lets Roll, have become America's favorite, slogan. They were used by President Bush to dispatch his bombers to the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan, but these words go further than that. For they are also the words that closed a remarkable conversation on September 11, 2001 between a man named Todd Beamer and Lisa Jefferson, a telephone switchboard operator. The words are: 'Let's Roll'. On the morning of September 11, Todd Beamer thought it was an ordinary day, but this would be the last day of his life. Todd Beamer, 32, talked for about 13 minutes with the GTE operator, Lisa Jefferson, Tuesday morning, on September 11. Todd contacted Lisa after an announcement, probably from one of the hijackers, was made over the PA system after having flipped the wrong switch, There is a bomb on board, we are meeting their demands, and we are heading back to the airport. Todd contacted Lisa from the hijacked Flight of United Airlines 93, which was supposed to have landed in San Francisco. It crashed, instead, into a rural area 60 miles from Pittsburgh. As it headed toward Washington, D.C., and the passengers all listened to its progress, even as we watched the World Trade Center's towers ablaze, several passengers on that flight were in contact with loved ones, through their cell phones. That's how they found out they were NOT probably...