Todd Beamer told a phone operator the passengers were going to take the plane back, said the Lord's Prayer with her, and then she heard him say: "Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll." At 9:57 they went for the cockpit. Forty people died. Nobody on the ground did. Todd Beamer and the passengers and crew of Flight 93 are American heroes.
"The reality is this ceremony is for the families and for America to remember historically," Giuliani told Newsmax. "Having lost friends there and being very close to many of the families, it offends me that he's coming."
The government insisted the funeral was a private affair, even as government ministers attended and state-controlled news media lavished praise on the convicted war criminal.