The forty heroes of Flight 93 couldn’t save themselves. They couldn’t return home to their loved ones. But they were all that stood between the hijackers and the destruction of the U.S. Capitol or the White House. All deserved to be honored and remembered as civilians turned combatants, the saviors of countless lives during the first battle of a new war. If there is a heaven, Lizz Wainio’s grandmothers were waiting there to greet every last one.
