Oh my God!" - Madeline Amy Sweeney, flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11 ( 11 September 2001), over the phone to manager Michael Woodward "Are you guys ready? Let's roll." - Todd Beamer, American passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 ( 11 September 2001), signaling the start of the revolt against the flight's hijackers, resulting in the plane crashing in the ensuing struggle for the controls, killing all 44 aboard "We're going to rush the hijackers." - Jeremy Glick, American passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 ( 11 September 2001), over the phone to his wife prior to the revolt against the flight's hijackers "We're looking in. ![]() Somebody's calling medical and we can't get a doc-" - Betty Ong, a flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11 ( 11 September 2001), on a phone call, in response to Operations Specialist Nydia Gonzalez asking if she had tried calling anyone else for help treating the stab victims on the plane. Convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing, McVeigh chose " Invictus" (Latin for "unconquered"), an 1875 poem by the British poet William Ernest Henley, as his final statement prior to his execution by lethal injection. ![]() 2001–2009 "Okay, just wondering." - Dale Earnhardt Sr., American race car driver (18 February 2001), after asking teammate Andy Pilgrim if he had any advice for him prior to his fatal crash in the 2001 Daytona 500 "It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." - Timothy McVeigh, American domestic terrorist (11 June 2001).
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