Widow of Flight 93 hero tells his story in new book (Deena Burnett)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06191/704776-100.stm

The widow of Tom Burnett, who helped lead the passenger revolt on hijacked Flight 93, says in a new book that he had struggled to figure out what he believed was a message from God that might have presaged the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Deena Burnett wrote that a year before the attacks, her husband, who rarely spoke openly about his faith, told her he'd been attending Mass daily to try to understand a message from God that had "something to do with the White House."

He told her he hadn't figured it out, "but I know it will impact a great number of people," she wrote in her book, "Fighting Back: Living Life Beyond Ourselves."

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She also wrote that when she and other Flight 93 families were invited to the White House two weeks after the attacks, she asked President Bush for access to the plane's cockpit voice recording.

Burnett wrote that Bush replied: "I can see why you would want to. They sure were heroes on that flight."

[Beelzebud]

1. God must have been warning him about MIHOP.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

36. Go sell crazy in the 9/11 forum. n/t

[Beelzebud]

38. For the mirthless, that was a joke...

Not everything is serious, and your attitude about "go sell crazy in the 9/11 forum", shows me you have zero sense of humor.

Buzz off. I don't need someone like you chiming in on my posts telling me where to post at. If the mods think it needs moved, they will take it up with me.

[VegasWolf]

46. Must be the same God that was the voice in Bush's head telling him

to go kill people in Iraq and that the war would be a cake walk.

[Benhurst]

2. BushAmerica ...

Back to the Dark Ages.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. I'm just not ready to trust anything that comes out of her mouth.

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. A year before the attacks?

That doesn't make sense to me. Bush was (s)elected 10 months before those attacks. Put into office just over eight months before.

Maybe God was warning him of a coup.

[acmejack]

5. She knew what to say to make that book sell.

Pennies from heaven, so to speak...

[RamboLiberal]

7. I'm curious how he got the message - dreams?

I do sometimes think there is something to the strange world of dreams - though I don't think they are necessarily a "message from God".

[ronnykmarshall]

14. Yeah and those 9/11 widow's are enjoying their husband's deaths!

:hide:

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. The ones married to the guys on the Let's Roll Team

seem to be a special breed of Fundie Bushbots. They've seem to have a special talent of milking their husband's memories all in the name of their god, of course.

Sorry, if anyone finds this offensive but there are some very odd things about this particular group.

[ronnykmarshall]

18. Oh I hear ya.

But I'm pointing out the irony from BOTH sides of the debate.

I won't hold my breath for La Coulter's responce to this book.

[dflprincess]

32. This one recently remarried

(not meant as slam, she is a young woman and it's been nearly 5 years, God knows she entitled). I just find it interesting that she's still trading on her late husband's death. I'll wonder she'll be accused of "enjoying it".

[earth mom]

39. I hear ya! Is this the sequel to Lisa Beamers book?

:eyes:

[Marie26]

44. So you agree w/Ann Coulter?

Would you say they are "enjoying their husband's deaths?

[DoYouEverWonder]

47. That's not what I said at all

I just have questions about their husband's roles in 9-11.

[BonnieJW]

6. I don't trust her either.

Wasn't she trying to copywright the phrase "Let's Roll?" She seems to be the only one trying to make a buck and it makes her seem rather sleazy.

[RamboLiberal]

8. I think you're thinking of Lisa Beamer of her husband Todd Beamer

She's another Flight 93 widow - she's the one who sought to I believe copyright "Let's Roll". And she had a book out.

Didn't she and Deena campaign for Bush?

But according to Coulter you'd think the Jersey Girls were the only ones who backed a candidate based on their perceptions of *'s leadership on 9-11.

I'm curious how much TV time Burnett will get for her book vs. Kristen Breitweiser when her book Wake-Up Call : The Political Education of a 9/11 Widow comes out in September. Be an indicator to me of how the MSM is still treating the 9-11 story.

I was sickened by the overabundance of coverage that shill Coulter got with her inane criticism of the Jersey Girls.

[MnFats]

16. that was not Deena Burnett.

I've met her.
I don't any of us is in a position to judge her very harshly.
The family leaned Republican before. I think Sept. 11, simply hardened their view.
They're decent people.

[PA Democrat]

31. Deena Burnett spoke at the Republican National Convention in NYC

No one on the left questioned her motives or made ugly statements like Coulter made about the Jersey girls.

Coulter is a class all her own.

[RamboLiberal]

9. Unless Amazon is wrong this book is supposed to have been

out since May 1 - not exactly flying off the shelves - 143,533 in sales rank. Wonder if they are putting it in the current events or the religious sections. I know I haven't seen it. If I had I'd have probably scanned it at the bookstore though there's no way I'd buy it.

On edit - looks like everyone is trying to make their dime off 9-11. The operator who took he phone call from Todd Beamer has a book coming out this month.

Called: Hello, This Is Mrs. Jefferson. I Understand Your Plane Is Being Hijacked. 9:45 Am, Flight 93, September 11, 2001 (Hardcover)

[DoYouEverWonder]

41. Amazing, that Todd Beamer

spoke to Jefferson for over 15 minutes during an ongoing hijacking and had enough time to say the Our Father, Psalm 23 and then had time left over to organize the 'Let's Roll' Team.

One other funny thing about 93, only the people on the Let's Roll Team were able to make lengthy phone calls to people on the ground. Only one or two other people made very short phone calls, except the fellow in the bathroom, whose call usually gets ignored because it contradicts the 'Let's Roll' Team calls.

[gratuitous]

10. Where's Little Arfin' Annie when we need her?

I can't tell if this is a harpy enjoying her husband's death, or a forthright American standing up proudly for George W. Bush, Light of Mankind? Wait, it mentions God and has an eagle and a flag on the cover. Problem solved. Send the succubus back to the sixth circle of Hell.

[Psephos]

27. Isn't one Coulter enough?

Just sayin'...

Peace.

[defiant1]

11. Jeez....

:puke:

d1

[BrokenBeyondRepair]

12. how does the cockpit voice recorder pick up

conversations in the cabin?

[dflprincess]

13. This book got a lot of play in the Minneapolis paper Sunday

Tom Burnett was originally from the same Mpls 'burb I live in (in fact, one of the post offices in town was renamed for him). It Strib article mentioned that Deena campaigned for Bush in 2004. Apparently, she hasn't learned anything.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

17. What possible skills does she have to run for anything

She also said she has been approached about running for the U.S. House or for Arkansas lieutenant governor but that she wasn't likely to attempt any run before her girls are grown.

We have too many big-headed ignorami in public office already

[Klimmer]

19. The real evidence suggests something else happened on flight 93 . . .

Wreckage over square miles of area suggest it was shot down. as many witnesses indicate military fighter aircraft in the area at the same exact time. How are voices in the passenger area of the cabin recorded on the flight recorder in the cockpit?

Cell phones don't work over about 3000 - 4000' feet off the ground in flight. Try it yourself the next time you fly. Just look at the bars as you fly and you get zip, nada over those heights. I know I've flown cross country several times with my circa 2001 Kyocera 2135 cell phone looking at the screen every 10 mins. and nothing until we approached those low hieghts again.

Now on-board phines will work, put that reqiures you swipe a credit card. The government should be able to show these phone records with personal data blacked out so we know when and on what exactly these phone calls were made. Produce the phone records.

MIHOP all the way. Some people are dillusional.

[bluestateguy]

20. I'm going to give her a pass

She has the right to speak out however she sees fit.

I will not subject her to the same treatment the Right has given to Cindy Sheehan.

[chelsea0011]

25. Agreed. I think what she is saying is a bit over-the-top for my taste

but that was one horrific experience for a family to go through and I sympathize with her and all the other families and friends. I'm not Coulterizing her and picking and choosing who to attack. She's got a right to speak as much as the next person. Something Bush and Co. never seem to understand.

[RamboLiberal]

26. I'm with you - I will not stoop to Coulter's level

And if she wants to run for office as a Republican - so be it! She has the right to do that.

I'd love to see Kristen Breitweiser run for office or one of the Jersey Girls, or some of the men who lost loved ones on 9-11 and questioned the Bush Admin response and utilizing of 9-11 as a political tool as well.

But you know any 9-11 survivor running as a Dem will be demonized and swift-boated by Coulter and the right.

[FredScuttle]

21. She's a widow, for Christ's sake

I have no beef with her or her book...She has a voice, just like anyone else. I can't walk in her shoes, nor would I tell her what shoes she should wear.

On another note, what a typically moronic response by * when she asked for the cockpit recordings. When will the adults take over?

[geomon666]

22. I still don't buy the whole 'revolt' thing.

To this day I think they (the military) shot that plane down.

[MsKandice01]

23. And Ann Coulter hasn't attacked her yet for enjoying her husband's death?

What a shock.

[Freedom4Sale]

35. Coulter has other things on her mind

Coulter is too concerned with her plagarism charges to comment on the message from god. But I am sure it will be in her next book

[rman]

37. Because she doesn't question the Official Conspiracy Theory

You know, the one about the 19 arabs.

[earth mom]

40. No because Burnett's a reTHUG. So it's all good.

:sarcasm:

[Marie26]

45. But that means

Dems will attack her instead & never see the irony.

[DemNoir]

24. This is the only angle possible.

She wasn't there, so she knows no more than any of us. AHH a premonition thats the ticket! It practically writes itself!

[daleo]

28. Maybe God was telling him this:

1) A cabal of fraudsters will steal the White House from Al Gore.
2) They will ignore all evidence about terrorism, allowing a terrible attack to occur (maybe even help it along, but God is still being a bit coy about that).
3) Then they will use the attack to launch aggressive wars around the world.
4) This will be followed up by stealing the White House from John Kerry and further war-mongering.

If only this fellow could have figured out the message in time.

"Deena Burnett wrote that a year before the attacks, her husband, who rarely spoke openly about his faith, told her he'd been attending Mass daily to try to understand a message from God that had "something to do with the White House.""

[Spinoza]

29. Whoa, to some people here,

try to calm down. I don't care if Burnett's widow wants to fuck Bush. She deserves compassion. Lets leave the hard-hearted refusal to feel or offer compassion to a woman whose husband was killed to Coulter. It's Coulter who can express contempt for someone who has lost a loved one, because she doesn't like their political beliefs. Thats what SHE does. Not us. Shame on some of us for sounding, even remotely, like that bitch.

[pitohui]

34. i care if she wants to lie

it's funny how he had all this premonition and yet it didn't stop him from getting on the plane

it's funny how she knows what happened even tho she wasn't there and nobody else knows what happened

i object to the marketing of blatant lies

[earth mom]

42. So shilling for * & Co is okay with you?

Sorry, but that doesn't fly with me. I lost my mom when she was killed by a drunk driver so I well know the sudden shocking pain and loss the 9/11 families went through. However, I didn't go right out and profit from my moms death and I certainly would NEVER do it to make scum of the earth like * look good. These people have absolutely no ethics and that puts em right in the same stinking cesspool as Coulter. :puke:

[Dancing_Dave]

30. How many people will buy this total B.S.?

A book that's nothing but lying propaganda...well, the corporate media will put in a good pitch for it because they're getting desperate to re-inforce the false 9/11 mythology that they so stupidly and irresponsibly handed down from the Bush Administration!

But no matter what rave reviews it gets from tainted sources such as the New York Times, I bet no where near so many people will buy and read it, as have seen the internet movie "Loose Change". It's hard to count and track all the "Loose Change Files" going around on the web, but Loose Change already has been downloaded many million times, and that's before the big feature article about Loose Change and it's young creators in the upcoming August issue of Vanity Fair.

The 9/11 cover-up is coming apart at the seems, and soon enough Deena Burnett's pernicious mythology will be be dumped in the waste bin of history along with Nazi propaganda.

[screenplaya]

33. They should have taken off

their aluminum foil antennas.

[DesertRat]

43. In Sept. 2000, the dream warned him about the upcoming election