nearly four months after her father's death. Survived by his wife, Lisa Beamer, two sons, David and Drew, and a daughter, Morgan Kay, who was born on Janu. He died at age 32 in the Septemattacks on board United Airlines Flight 93. Todd and the others showed us how we can turn a bad situation into some good.Todd Beamer, who resided in Cranbury, New Jersey, was an account manager for the Oracle Corporation. "People clung to the hope that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. It was, she said, the day's most emotional moment. When she reached San Francisco, she was greeted by a standing ovation of 50 United employees. United Airlines flight best fit her schedule, and the airline picked up the tab for her and two close friends who will help run the foundation. She needed to travel to San Francisco to raise money for the foundation by meeting with Todd's former business associates at Oracle, where he was a top salesman, and elsewhere. While there was much made of the symbolism of her trip - Lisa faced a throng of media on both ends - her decision to fly and to choose the same flight, now renamed as Flight 81, was born of pragmatism. "That's what I want my kids to know, not that he was some super hero or larger-than-life figure." "Todd made good choices every day and did what was right for our family. She has been buoyed by family, friends and the kindness of strangers, who have sent more than $200,000, all of which will be donated to the foundation, from which the Beamer family will receive no aid. She is trying to return as much normalcy to their lives as she can, draws deeply on her faith, and only lets herself get emotional when she is alone.
"When he sees I'm sad, he says, 'Mommy, it's OK because daddy still loves us,' " Lisa said. David, 3, knows his father died on a plane, but "doesn't know there were bad people involved." Drew, 1, is still too young to understand what happened, and calls into his father's home office hoping he is inside. She will raise her own children with the same goal. Todd also mentored boys through his church and the foundation will support youth charities that "enable kids to be able to grow up to be like Todd was and make decisions like he did, on Sept. "These children are very young and it will be a long time until they're self-sufficient." 11) who fit Todd's profile: a dad with young kids and a stay-at-home mom," Lisa, herself a former Oracle saleswoman, said during her flight yesterday. "There are so many people (affected by Sept. Beamer Foundation, org, to help care for the children of Flight 93 and victims of any future terrorist attacks. The insurance company has agreed to make an exception. And after Todd's death, she learned that buried in the fine print of his life insurance policy was a clause that exempted benefits for victims of terrorism or war. She was 15 when her own father died, leaving a wife and four children without health insurance. Lisa has suffered such loss both as mother and child. Nineteen other children, some of whom she met at the Pennsylvania crash site and at the White House, will grow up without a father or mother. Instead of becoming lost in her personal tragedy, Lisa has turned her sights to helping the other families left behind by the crash of Flight 93, which killed all 44 people on board. Todd had asked an Airphone operator to call his wife as he and others prepared to "jump the terrorists." As he dropped the phone, he said, "Let's roll." She remembers the phone ringing on the fateful morning the dead air on the line when she answered. She has been interviewed countless times, was featured at President Bush's address to a joint session of Congress and presents herself with remarkable poise that belies her circumstances.Īt 32, she has been left a single, stay-at-home mother with a toddler, an infant and a third child due in three months. In the six weeks since the attacks, Lisa has become a defacto spokeswoman for the heroes of Flight 93: her husband of seven years, Todd, 32, a Los Gatos high school graduate San Francisco resident Mark Bingham, 31 San Ramon resident Thomas Burnett, 38 and Jeremy Glick, 31, of New Jersey, who worked for a San Francisco Internet company. "These terrorists have tried to scare us and paralyze us.
"His example is one I'm following," she said after landing in San Francisco. Yesterday, Lisa completed the journey for him. 11, he and other passengers on United Flight 93 apparently fought their attackers before the plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field. As hijacked planes slammed into New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept.
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