Remember them

We who lived through that time will never forget the terrible attack on America on 9-11-2001 playing out in real time on our tv's. I remember a radio announcer saying, "We're in a war with somebody." At the time, no one knew who that was.

Families who lost somebody that day keep memories of their loved ones. A wife remembers that day in this post from 2018:

Deena Burnett said of her husband Tom, "He just felt that whatever God's plan was for him, it had something to do with the White House and was going to impact a lot of people."

On September 11, 2001, Tom was on Flight 93. He and three others determined to "do something" when terrorists took over the airplane to use it as a weapon against the United States. 

It is thought that the terrorists planned to crash the plane into the White House. Tom and the others formed a plan to gain control of the cockpit, but somehow the plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field. Tom's God-given destiny was to help save the White House from Islamic terror.

"Tom Burnett’s strength was problem solving: it was practically a job description for the COO of a medical technology firm. Working the problem is what he did best, his wife says... and that day was no exception:

"Deena Burnett: He was very busy. He was taking down information. He was planning what they were going to do. And he was not interested in reviewing his life or whispering sweet nothings into the telephone, I assure you. He was problem solving, and he was going to take care of it and come on home."

He grew up in Bloomington MN and is buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.