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These pages are dedicated to all the Innocent people who lost
their lives on the 9-11-2001 at the WTC, Pentagon and Aircraft.
While I watched the events unfold on the
9-11-2001 in my hotel room and saw airplanes crash in to the WTC I gave a
thought to what it must have been like on the hijacked airplanes. I have
always had a problem with flying - it just makes me feel uneasy - but I cannot
comprehend the terror that each and every passenger on these airplanes must
have suffered - may they all rest in peace.
AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 77
American Airlines Flight 77, from Washington to Los
Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon with 64 people aboard. Here is a list of
the terrorist victims. There are few pictures on this site to remember these
victims by, so where possible I have included some personal information to
allow the reader to connect to these REAL people - they were just like
you or me.
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Charles Burlingame of Herndon, Virginia, was the
plane's captain. He is survived by a wife, a daughter and a grandson. He had
more than 20 years of experience flying with American Airlines and was a
former U.S. Navy pilot.
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David Charlebois, who lived in Washington's Dupont
Circle neighborhood, was the first officer on the flight. "He was handsome
and happy and very centered," his neighbor Travis White, told The Washington
Post. "His life was the kind of life I wanted to have some day."
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Michele Heidenberger of Chevy Chase, Maryland, was
a flight attendant for 30 years. She left behind a husband, a pilot, and a
daughter and son.
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Flight attendant Jennifer Lewis, 38, of Culpeper,
Virginia, was the wife of flight attendant Kenneth Lewis.
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Flight attendant Kenneth Lewis, 49, of Culpeper,
Virginia, was the husband of flight attendant Jennifer Lewis.
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Renee May, 39, of Baltimore, Maryland, was a flight
attendant.
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PASSENGERS
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Paul Ambrose, 32, of Washington, was a physician
who worked with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the
surgeon general to address racial and ethnic disparities in health. A 1995
graduate of Marshall University School of Medicine, Ambrose last year was
named the Luther Terry Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Preventative
Medicine.
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Yeneneh Betru, 35, was from Burbank, California.
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M.J. Booth
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Bernard Brown, 11, was a student at Leckie
Elementary School in Washington. He was embarking on an educational trip to
the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California,
as part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society.
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Suzanne Calley, 42, of San Martin, California, was
an employee of Cisco Systems Inc.
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William Caswell
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Sarah Clark, 65, of Columbia, Maryland, was a
sixth-grade teacher at Backus Middle School in Washington. She was
accompanying a student on an educational trip to the Channel Islands National
Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a program funded
by the National Geographic Society.
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Asia Cottom, 11, was a student at Backus Middle
School in Washington. Asia was embarking on an educational trip to the
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as
part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society.
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James Debeuneure, 58, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland,
was a fifth-grade teacher at Ketcham Elementary School in Washington. He was
accompanying a student on an educational trip to the Channel Islands National
Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California, as part of a program funded
by the National Geographic Society.
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Rodney Dickens, 11, was a student at Leckie
Elementary School in Washington. He was embarking on an educational trip to
the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa Barbara, California,
as part of a program funded by the National Geographic Society.
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Eddie Dillard
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Charles Droz
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Barbara Edwards, 58, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was a
teacher at Palo Verde High School in Las Vegas.
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Charles S. Falkenberg, 45, of University Park,
Maryland, was the director of research at ECOlogic Corp., a software
engineering firm. He worked on data systems for NASA and also developed data
systems for the study of global and regional environmental issues. Falkenburg
was traveling with his wife, Leslie Whittingham, and their two daughters,
Zoe, 8, and Dana, 3.
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Zoe Falkenberg, 8, of University Park, Maryland,
was the daughter of Charles Falkenberg and Leslie Whittingham.
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Dana Falkenberg, 3, of University Park, Maryland,
was the daughter of Charles Falkenberg and Leslie Whittingham.
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Joe Ferguson was the director of the National
Geographic Society's geography education outreach program in Washington. He
was accompanying a group of students and teachers on an educational trip to
the Channel Islands in California. A Mississippi native, he joined the
society in 1987. "Joe Feguson's final hours at the Geographic reveal the
depth of his commitment to one of the things he really loved," said John
Fahey Jr., the society's president. "Joe was here at the office until late
Monday evening preparing for this trip. It was his goal to make this trip
perfect in every way."
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Wilson "Bud" Flagg of Millwood, Virginia, was a
retired Navy admiral and retired American Airlines pilot.
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Dee Flagg
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Richard Gabriel
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Ian Gray, 55, of Washington was the president of a
health-care consulting firm.
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Stanley Hall, 68, was from Rancho Palos Verdes,
California.
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Bryan Jack, 48, of Alexandria, Virginia, was a
senior executive at the Defense Department.
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Steven D. "Jake" Jacoby, 43, of Alexandria,
Virginia, was the chief operating officer of Metrocall Inc., a wireless data
and messaging company.
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Ann Judge, 49, of Virginia was the travel office
manager for the National Geographic Society. She was accompanying a group of
students and teachers on an educational trip to the Channel Islands in
California. Society President John Fahey Jr. said one of his fondest memories
of Judge is a voice mail she and a colleague once left him while they were
rafting the Monkey River in Belize. "This was quintessential Ann -- living
life to the fullest and wanting to share it with others," he said.
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Chandler Keller, 29, was a Boeing propulsion
engineer from El Segundo, California.
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Yvonne Kennedy
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Norma Khan
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Karen A. Kincaid, 40, was a lawyer with the
Washington firm of Wiley Rein & Fielding. She joined the firm in 1993 and was
part of the its telecommunications practice. She was married to Peter
Batacan.
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Norma Langsteuerle
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Dong Lee
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Dora Menchaca, 45, of Santa Monica, California, was
the associate director of clinical research for a biotech firm.
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Christopher Newton, 38, of Anaheim, California, was
president and chief executive officer of Work-Life Benefits, a consultation
and referral service. He was married and had two children. Newton was on his
way back to Orange County to retrieve his family's yellow Labrador, who had
been left behind until they could settle into their new home in Arlington,
Virginia.
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Barbara Olson, 45, was a conservative commentator
who often appeared on CNN and was married to U.S. Solicitor General Theodore
Olson. She twice called her husband as the plane was being hijacked and
described some details, including that the attackers were armed with knives.
She had planned to take a different flight, but she changed it at the last
minute so that she could be with her husband on his birthday. She worked as
an investigator for the House Government Reform Committee in the mid-1990s
and later worked on the staff of Senate Minority Whip Don Nickles.
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Ruben Ornedo, 39, of Los Angeles, California, was a
Boeing propulsion engineer.
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Robert Penniger, 63, of Poway, California, was an
electrical engineer with BAE Systems.
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Lisa Raines, 42, was senior vice president for
government relations at the Washington office of Genzyme, a biotechnology
firm. She was from Great Falls, Virginia, and was married to Stephen Push.
She worked with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on developing a new
policy governing cellular therapies, announced in 1997. She also worked on
other major health-care legislation.
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Todd Reuben, 40, of Potomac, Maryland, was a tax
and business lawyer.
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John Sammartino
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Diane Simmons
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George Simmons
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Mari-Rae Sopper of Santa Barbara, California, was a
women's gymnastics coach at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
She had just gotten the post August 31 and was making the trip to California
to start work.
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Bob Speisman, 47, was from Irvington, New York.
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Hilda Taylor was a sixth-grade teacher at Leckie
Elementary School in Washington. She was accompanying a student on an
educational trip to the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary near Santa
Barbara, California, as part of a program funded by the National Geographic
Society.
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Leonard Taylor was from Reston, Virginia.
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Leslie A. Whittington, 45, was from University
Park, Maryland. The professor of public policy at Georgetown University in
Washington was traveling with her husband, Charles Falkenberg, 45, and their
two daughters, Zoe, 8, and Dana, 3. They were traveling to Los Angeles to
catch a connection to Australia. Whittington had been named a visiting fellow
at Australian National University in Canberra.
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John Yamnicky, 71, was from Waldorf, Maryland.
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Vicki Yancey
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Shuyin Yang
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Yuguag Zheng
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Remember these victims
- any one of them could have just as easily have been you. Terrorism is a sick
way of imposing the terrorists twisted will upon you - never allow that
to be.
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