The university honored the two with special services on the first anniversary of the attack by planting two young Canary Island pine trees, courtesy of Tree Fresno, in their memory in the Peace Garden on campus and again when the Bulldog Walkway was dedicated on Oct. Tolbert was a Lemoore High School graduate who played for the Bulldogs football team from 1980-83 Tolbert also died on September 11 when another hijacked airplane was flown into the Pentagon where Tolbert worked for the U.S. Are you ready guys? Let’s roll!”īeamer, who was a physical therapy major at Fresno State in 19 and a walk-on with the university’s baseball team, is memorialized with a tree in the Peace Garden and on Bulldog Walkway at Fresno State, located at the Save Mart Center along with another Fresno State graduate, Otis Vincent Tolbert, Jr. The last words that the operator heard were his - “God help me. At the end of a 13-minute conversation, Todd put down the handset, but left the line open. He and the operator, Lisa Jefferson, together recited “The Lord’s Prayer” and the 23rd Psalm. that day.Īboard Flight 93 that fateful day, Todd used an onboard telephone to call a GTE operator. ![]() 11, 2001 as part of the terrorist attacks on the U.S. The film depicts the story of United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Penn., on Sept. It is a call to action: to do the right thing at the right time.The new Universal Pictures’ film, “Flight 93” that opens today in theaters across the nation features California State University, Fresno alumnus Todd Morgan Beamer. Todd’s “Let’s roll” became the motto of our country’s counterattack.īut David Beamer stresses that “Let’s roll” is more than simply a motto. Todd’s dad David sees the Lord’s hand in the delay of Flight 93, which allowed the passengers to know the full extent of the danger they were in and to take action based on this knowledge. 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 confront the hijackers. Todd Beamer High School is a four-year secondary school located in Federal Way, Washington within the Federal Way School District. Image of a flyer titled Upcoming Fife Events Text Found On Flyer -Upcoming. “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 they prayed the Lord’s Prayer together.įor thirteen minutes, the line stayed open. Passengers and flight attendants huddling in the rear of the plane used in-flight phones to contact their loved ones and officials on the ground.Todd, trying to call his wife Lisa on one of the plane’s phones, was routed to customer service, and he spoke with GTE supervisor Lisa Jefferson. The pilots of Flight 93 were informed of the crash and the two that followed only moments before four hijackers on their flight took over the cockpit and cabin. ![]() ![]() 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.ĭelayed more than 40 minutes on the runway, Flight 93 took off only four minutes before an American Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center (WTC).
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