There aren’t many heroes that remain from that gruesome day. Most of them are mere dust, destroyed by a cult of death. One of the few that do is Lisa Jefferson, who worked in the Verizon Airphone call center. She is the brave woman who held the line open for Todd Beamer, who prayed with him, and who ultimately had to hang up her phone after 15 minutes of dead air. Dear air. Interesting expression, that.
Here is her interview with Beliefnet, for the 5th anniversary in 2006.
There are few strangers I’d like to meet. Few stranger to whose funerals I’d go, or to whose sides I would rush to stand. She is one of those few.
You know, the way I look at it, God picked certain people. He handpicked certain people to be on that flight and he picked a group full of heroes, people he knew that would stand up against the terrorists and fight back for the good of our nation and that’s exactly what they did.
