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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - In northeast Fresno, adjacent Sommerville Drive and Behmer Avenue, determination is simply a parkland named for 1 of the radical who fought backmost against coercion connected Sept. 11, 2001.
Todd Beamer Park is 1 of the City of Fresno's parks and includes a hoops tribunal and a skatepark among the playing fields and picnic tables. The antheral who the parkland is named for was a Fresno State alumnus, a carnal therapy large successful 1987 and 1988 and a walk-on with the university’s shot team.
Chalk creator Eric Greenawalt, of Pittsburgh, works connected a chalk representation of Todd Beamer, 1 of the 40 passengers and unit who perished connected Flight 93. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)Todd Beamer had a large relation successful the communicative of United Airlines Flight 93, the level that crashed successful Shanksville, Pennsylvania, connected Sept. 11, 2001.
Of the 4 planes hijacked connected Sept. 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 was the lone 1 that did not scope its target. On committee that level was Todd Beamer, a Fresno State postgraduate who relayed what was happening connected committee to GTE Airfone Operator Lisa Jefferson.
At the extremity of their 13-minute conversation, Beamer enactment down the handset but near the enactment open. The past words that the relation heard were his — “God assistance me. Jesus assistance me. Are you acceptable guys? Let’s roll!”
United Flight 93 had acceptable disconnected from Newark, New Jersey, and was connected its mode to San Francisco erstwhile it was taken by hijackers. It's believed that their extremity was to clang the level into the U.S. Capitol. Instead, Todd Beamer was 1 of a radical of passengers who worked to overwhelm the terrorists aft learning astir the different attacks that had taken place.
The 9/11 Commission concluded that the hijackers took the level down arsenic the passengers fought their mode into the cockpit.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
