BlackFive

We should never forget the heroism of September 11th.

Never yield.

I'm going to experience United 93 tomorrow.  I've been to Dachau, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.  I've been to the cliffs of Point du Hoc where the Rangers climbed to begin the end of the Nazis.  I've walked the battlegrounds of the Bulge, Gettysburg, Ardennes, Bunker Hill, the Alamo, and Massada.  Not all places were last stands, but they certainly were places of defiance and courage.  Someday, I'll make a trip out to a field in Pennsylvania...

I don't imagine that I'll want to fly too soon after seeing United 93.  I don't imagine that I'll feel better for awhile after either...

However, I'm glad that Hollywood finally made a movie about Flight 93.  Are they making a buck off of my cathartic reaction?  Sure.  But I've got a need to go see this movie.  So do many of you.  One of my favorite pubs in Chicago had a plaque for Todd Beamer right by the front door.  Customers, mostly firefighters and cops, would touch it gently as they entered and exited.  It said "Let's Roll."

How many of you have wondered if you'd have had the courage of the passengers of Flight 93?  I know I have thought about it.

Here's the link to a featurette for United 93.

Now, Hollywood needs to get off their dead asses and make one about Col. (ret) Rick Rescorla.  He saved 2,700 hundred people on September 11th - a friend among them.  My little brother was on the phone with his Morgan trading partner when they were evacuated.  For two days, we didn't know that he made it out of the building...because of Rescorla.  One of the last things that Morgan employees heard as they were evacuated was Rick singing:

So, in order to remember the heroism on September 11th, I'm going to see United 93 tomorrow.

Never forget, stand and never yield.

Update:  Michelle Malkin and Hot Air and Libertas have more on the interesting marketing and altering of the movie.

Update 2:  Freedomwatch is against the movie entirely.

Update 3:  Todd Beamer's father, David, writes a review in the WSJ.

...I encourage my fellow Americans and free people everywhere to see "United 93."

Be reminded of our very real enemy. Be inspired by a true story of heroic actions taken by ordinary people with victorious consequences. Be thankful for each precious day of life with a loved one and make the most of it. Resolve to take the right action in the situations of life, whatever they may be. Resolve to give thanks and support to those men, women, leaders and commanders who to this day (1,687 days since Sept. 11, 2001) continue the counterattacks on our enemy and in so doing keep us safe and our freedoms intact...

Update 4:  John of Op-For is going to see it in order to send Hollywood a signal.