FLIGHT 93:  Aboard that plane flew Todd Beamer, 32; Jeremy Glick, 31; and Mark Bingham, 31. These three "Xers," along with Thomas Burnett Jr., 38, and Lou Nacke, 42, are among the first heroes of this new war.

As the war escalates there will be other names to exalt. But for now we have these men,  "Let's roll!" was the rallying cry of Todd Beamer when he and the other passengers launched their counterattack against the terrorists. Beamer was on the phone with a GTE  airphone operator who told him of the fate of the other hijacked planes that day. He asked the operator to pray for him, as he knew he probably would not survive, and to call his pregnant wife, Lisa, to tell her and their two young sons that he loved them. Beamer told the operator that he and some other passengers were going to do something. They probably saved the White House or the Capitol building from the same fate as the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.  They sacrificed their lives to assure the safety of thousands of others.