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I Love You Mommy . . . Goodbye. Cont. from Page 3
Unfortunately, after completing a late night shift as a police officer, and in a deep slumber, her husband never even heard the phone ring.
even worse tragedy and, therefore, saved many more lives.
The resulting debris and sheer force of concussion destroyed over a dozen adjacent and nearby structures, ultimately leading to the collapse of 7 World Trade Center later in the day, at 5:21 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
This is the voice message that her husband found on his voicemail.
ON THE SAME UNITED FLIGHT 93 AS CEE-CEE LYLES, WAS MARK, WHOSE MOM IS WAITING FOR HIM IN SAN FRANCISCO. Mark always loved to play rugby football and was even a member of the amateur San Francisco Rugby team called the Fog.
collapses at precisely 10:28 a.m. -less than 30 minutes after the South Tower went down.
Kevin Cosgrove’s remains were found in the rubble. He was buried on September 22, 2001 at St. Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery in Huntington, New York.
At the National 9/11 Memorial Museum, Cosgrove is memorialized at the South Pool area, on Panel S60, where his widowed wife, Wendy Cosgrove, a schoolteacher, has made certain her husband’s story and life will never be forgotten. FINAL CALLS TO LOVED ONES FROM FLIGHT 93. CeeCee Lyles, mother of four, was a flight attendant on the ill-fated United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. It was hijacked by terrorists just fifteen minutes after departing Newark, New Jersey en route to San Francisco, California.
She desperately dialed home, twice, on her mobile phone to speak to her husband.
He heard her message later, after she had died.
CEE-CEE LYLES: “Hi, baby. I’m . . . honey, you have to listen to me, very carefully. I’m on a plane that’s hijacked. I’m on the plane. I’m calling from the plane. I want to tell you that I love you. Please tell the children that I love them very much. And honey, I’m so very sorry. I don’t know what to say. There’s three guys, they’ve hijacked the plane . . . we’ve turned around and I heard there have been planes that have already flown into the World Trade Center. I hope to see your face again, baby. I love you. Bye.” Of the four aircraft hijacked on September 11, United Airlines Flight 93 was the only one that did not reach the hijacker’s intended target, which many suspect was the White House at the U. S. Capitol
During the passenger’s attempt to reclaim the airliner, it crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and 130 miles northwest of Washington, D. C., killing all 44 people onboard, including the four hijackers. It is believed they prevented an
Here is another passenger’s final phone call to his mother on the same hijacked plane as Cee Cee Lyles.
He is in mid-flight. On the very same Flight 93 as Cee Cee Lyles, already mentioned. His mother is waiting for him to arrive at San Francisco International Airport in California. Mark is fully-aware that his Flight 93 was overtaken by al-Qaeda terrorists. And knows about the Twin Tower airplane crashes in New York from other cell phone callers on his plane.
He is scared and wants to talk with his mother, one last time. He knows he’s going to die. He had heard the secret plans by his fellow passengers to fight the terrorists, if necessary, to the death. 9:35 to 9:55 A.M. (Eastern Standard Time): Mark had heard the other passengers and crew calling their loved ones. All of them
learned from their cell phones that two planes had already struck the World Trade Center Towers in New York. They all knew, including Mark, that they were about to die in a similar fate.
Mark saw flight attendant Sandra Bradsaw boiling water to throw on the hijackers.
He overheard fellow passenger Jeremy Glick call home and tell his wife Lyz on his mobile phone that they were planning to storm the cockpit. “I have my butter knife from breakfast,” he heard him tell his wife. He also heard first-class passenger Tony Burnett call home at the rear of the airplane, telling his wife that a passenger had already been stabbed earlier by the terrorist, and that the passenger just died. In mid-flight, Mark makes a final goodbye call to his mother, Alice Hoglan.
His mother immediately knows that her son is emotionally distraught when she first hears the timbre in his voice, although he tried to sound calm.
MARK: “Hi Mom. This is Mark. We’ve been taken over. There are
I Love You, Mommy. Goodbye. Continued on Page 6
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