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That story makes me sad and also questions my faith in the intelligence and greater feeling of community we as Americans or just plain humans are supposed to have. There is NO way after 911 that ANY man, woman or child, yellow, brown, black, white, purple or green should be allowed to act suspiciously in any group of people ESPECIALLY in a guidable jet fueled air craft (missile). They were VERY LUCKY they made it off, to me it sounded like there was more than enough evidence for a rational thinking adult to believe that without action there would be no safe landing. If I saw 14 suspicious anythings get on a plane I am not getting on, sorry....missed the flight, also as a civic minded person I would immediately notify anyone I could about things and try to delay the taking off of the plane as my duty to fellow humans to look out for the greater good. A police officer can at any time ask you a few friendly questions about something, a citizen can do the same, in this situation it is safe to say that if they were going to kill you they are going to kill you for asking why certain things are happening, but you have a much better chance of surviving or at least having others survive if you say something early. Sorry but the sky marshals would just have to arrest me for standing up and asking why it is 14 "strangers" are now acting a cohesive unit to my fellow passangers. What good is the "wait and see" attitude? Yeah it all worked out this time but they will have nothing to say but what amounts to "sorry" for your family had the guys done something to kill those people.
This all reminded me of a huge question I had about people and scary situations. 4 planes get hijacked, 3 get to their targets and 1 did not. How is it that a minimal amount of people could cause so many people to sit there and die, and why did the people on the last plane have what it took to fight back? How many lived did they save if that plain was meant to strike another target. THEY are as much a hero to me as the firemen that when into the buildings. I know people are going to say "well you do not know how you would react till you are in the situation" maybe growing up in New Orleans and seeing so much plus an upbringing to be strong and smart has armed me against fear, but common sense will say this. Sitting there holding your wife and kid because your wife is crying and now your kid is scared is not going to save your life. One of the only mancho American ideals I will EVER keep is "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees" If you see something like this STAND UP and do something, sometimes it only takes the courage of one person to bring about courage in others it is called a Leader or Hero. Sky marshals MAY have been there and MAY not have been but I am not going to put my life in the hands of MAYBE. For all you know she is telling you that so that you sit there passive and do not "scare" people into doing something because she is trained to do that. This just shakes my faith in people more and definitely tells me that amongst us there are leaders and there are followers I will never follow someone to my death if I can lead others to life
Done ranting now.
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