Todd M. Beamer
32 years old
Cranbury, New Jersey
Todd was an account manager for Oracle Corp. On weekends he taught Sunday school. At Los Gatos High School in California he had been a standout basketball and baseball player. "He was very caring and kind," said his sister Michele.
Todd used an onboard phone to call a GTE operator. The operator, Lisa Jefferson, said he told her that he and others on the plane were planning to act against the terrorists.
After he and the operator recited the 23rd Psalm, he asked her to promise she would call his wife of seven years, Lisa -- who is expecting a third child in January -- and their two sons David, three years old, and Andrew, one year old.
At the end of the 13-minute conversation, Todd put down the phone but left the line open. The last words the operator heard were, "Let's roll."
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For the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's biography of Todd Beamer, click here.
