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IMAGE: DAHLGREN. Va. (Sept. 11, 2019) – Navy chief select Karly Bengtson shares a story of heroism in response to the terrorist attacks and ensuing tragedies on 9/11. Bengtson was one of seven chief select ‘heroism readers’ based at commands located on Naval Surface Facility Dahlgren who recounted acts of heroism on that tragic day in our nation’s history. Bengtson – reading to military, first responders, government and contractor personnel gathered to honor the victims of 9/11 – recounted that: “At approximately 9:28 a.m. on Sep. 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was hijacked by four al Qaeda terrorists. After the terrorists had stabbed the pilot and a flight attendant, the passengers were told that a bomb was onboard and the plane was heading back to the airport. Tom Burnett was speaking to his wife on the phone upon discovering that flights had been hijacked in NYC and had hit the World Trade Center. ‘We have to do something, Burnett told his wife at 9:45 a.m. ‘I'm putting a plan together.’ Other passengers, including Mark Bingham, Jeremy Glick, and Todd Beamer, were learning similar details in their own phone calls. As the plane was barreling towards Washington, D.C., the passengers voted on whether or not to fight back against the hijackers. Led by the four man group, the passengers rushed the cockpit, with Beamer rallying them with his last words: "You ready? Okay, let's roll." Instead of the plane hitting its intended target — believed to be The White House or the Capitol Building — it crashed into an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.”
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Naval Support Activity South Potomac, Dahlgren, Va. - DAHLGREN. Va. (Sept. 11, 2019) – Navy chief select Karly Bengtson shares a story of heroism in response to the terrorist attacks and ensuing tragedies on 9/11. Bengtson was one of seven chief select ‘heroism readers’ based at commands located on Naval Surface Facility Dahlgren who recounted acts of heroism on that tragic day in our nation’s history. Bengtson – reading to military, first responders, government and contractor personnel gathered to honor the victims of 9/11 – recounted that: “At approximately 9:28 a.m. on Sep. 11, 2001, United Flight 93 was hijacked by four al Qaeda terrorists. After the terrorists had stabbed the pilot and a flight attendant, the passengers were told that a bomb was onboard and the plane was heading back to the airport. Tom Burnett was speaking to his wife on the phone upon discovering that flights had been hijacked in NYC and had hit the World Trade Center. ‘We have to do something, Burnett told his wife at 9:45 a.m. ‘I'm putting a plan together.’ Other passengers, including Mark Bingham, Jeremy Glick, and Todd Beamer, were learning similar details in their own phone calls. As the plane was barreling towards Washington, D.C., the passengers voted on whether or not to fight back against the hijackers. Led by the four man group, the passengers rushed the cockpit, with Beamer rallying them with his last words: "You ready? Okay, let's roll." Instead of the plane hitting its intended target — believed to be The White House or the Capitol Building — it crashed into an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.”


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