Immortal Heroes - a very small selection of very special humans
DATE(S) TOPIC - a short history (CLICK THE TITLE BELOW)
17/4/2018 Tammy Jo Schults, whose calm competence saved an airliner full of passengers
11/9/2001 There were MANY heroes on that day: these few represent them all.
United Airlines Flight 93 and the passengers who saved the White House or Capitol
Marc Sasseville & Heather Penney: took off to ram the hijacked Flight 93, whose passengers did the job for them
Todd Beamer on United Airlines Flight 93
Rick Rescorla in the Twin Towers, the Morgan Stanley Security Officer who died saving so many of his colleagues
Betty Ong: the calm heroine of doomed flight 11
5/9/1986 Neerja Bhanot, who saved hundreds of lives but sacrificed her own in yet another Muslim aircraft hijack
27/10/1962 Alexandrovich Arkhipov: the man who prevented a nuclear war with the USA
15/4/1912 John Jacob Astor IV: calmly went down with the Titanic as his pregnant wife was rescued in a lifeboat
Isidor & Ida Straus - their love and sacrifice in the Titanic disaster as she refused to leave her doomed husband
1822-1913 Harriet Tubman: famous as an American abolitionist and social activist
1757-1834 The Marquis de Lafayette: "Hero of Two Worlds"