![]() Though Mills was adopted (and at the time, she did not know who her biological parents were), when she got home from school, she said she blurted out to her adoptive mother that “one of my birth parents had died,” according to a Cosmopolitan article. The attacks happened when Mills was a junior in high school. Mariah Mills (the biological daughter of Tom Burnett) The four men who prevented the attack posthumously received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award in 2002.Īll but Bingham had children or were expecting children before that fateful day, and those kids, 17 years later, are carrying on the legacies left by fathers they either barely knew or never met. The plan was for the hijackers to crash the plane into the Capitol, the Pentagon or the White House, according to published reports. Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham, Jeremy Glick and Todd Beamer rightfully are forever immortalized for their role in battling a group of hijackers on United Flight 93 - a flight that ultimately took the lives of everybody on board the plane.Īfter Burnett, Bingham, Glick and Beamer, all former athletes, stormed the cockpit and battled four hijackers, the plane ended up crashing into a Pennsylvania field instead of a Washington, D.C. Thanks to the action of some very brave men, the world won’t ever know the additional destruction it could have seen on Sept. ![]()
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