# flight 93: They voted to overpower the Hijackers!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-93-they-voted-to-overpower-the-hijackers/81187>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 12, 2001, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-93-they-voted-to-overpower-the-hijackers/81187 "2001-09-12T22:46:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-93-they-voted-to-overpower-the-hijackers/81187/41 "2001-09-14T09:16:05Z")

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> Welcome to the SDMB, apotheosis.

Thank you very much. I wish the circumstances which finally lured me out of lurk mode could have been better…

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> Cynicism isn’t totally useless. It’s a wonderful guard dog, keeping you safe from mountebanks and scoundrels, but like any other guard dog, it needs to be kept on a short leash.

I agree. And I’ve no plan to abandon it, assuming I could; it’d just be nice to hear something like this without reflexively second-guessing it.

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**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flight-93-they-voted-to-overpower-the-hijackers/81187/42 "2001-09-15T02:42:01Z")

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Sen. Arlan Specter of PA said at the Somerset crash site that they’re looking into giving the passengers the Freedom Medal for their actions.

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