This act was not a singular event, it was merely the final act of a life of humility and obedience.” In a single act that will always be remembered, he embodied what we so desire each of our students to become. “I knew Todd Beamer well, and I’m proud he was a student at Wheaton Academy. ![]() Bible teacher Doug Scheidt who’d gone to Wheaton College with Todd and later shared an apartment with him, praised his former roommate. In the Wheaton Academy Connection published later that fall, the front cover and a memorial page were dedicated to Todd. The hijackers’ plan to create another tragedy had been defeated. All on board died, but no one else was injured or killed. It crashed instead in a deserted field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Though it is not known if they broke through, what is certain is that the plane did not reach its planned destination. The last words she heard Todd say were, “Are you guys ready? Let’s roll.” They understood their plane was probably going to be used, like the other three, to carry out another attack, and they wanted to prevent that. Jefferson overheard Todd and fellow passengers planning to “jump on” the hijackers. “He was calm through the entire conversation,” said Jefferson, “and I tried to stay just as calm with him.” Todd told Jefferson about the hijacking he asked her to tell his wife he loved her and their family and they prayed the Lord’s Prayer together.įor thirteen minutes the line stayed open. Todd, trying to call Lisa, was routed to customer service, and he spoke with GTE supervisor Lisa Jefferson. Passengers and flight attendants huddling in the rear of the plane used in-flight phones to contact loved ones and officials on the ground. The pilots of Flight 93 were informed of that crash and the two that followed only moments before the four hijackers on their flight took over the cockpit and cabin. ![]() ![]() He never even made it to California.ĭelayed more than 40 minutes on the runway, the flight took off only four minutes before an American Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. He would take the early flight from Newark to San Francisco, attend his meeting, and fly back that night.īut Todd Beamer ’87 never made it back to his wife, Lisa, their two young sons, David and Drew, and their unborn child. By Jen Underwood First Published in “Celebrating God’s Unfolding Story”
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