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11, 2014  Flight of the Doomed  Posted Friday, September 9,
2011, at 4:32 PM  On September 11, 2001, the USA was under
attack by Muslim Extremists whereby four passenger airplanes
were hijacked -- two planes slammed into the Twin Towers of the
World Trade Center in New York City and another one slammed into
the Pentagon Building.  The fourth hijacked airplane (Flight 93)
was over Pennsylvania, heading toward the White House, but never
made it.  One of my fellow University of Minnesota Alumni
Association members, Tom Burnett, class of '86, was aboard
Flight 93. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, he became
a national hero.  According to his friends and family, Tom was
always a take-charge sort of guy. At 6'2" and 205 lbs., he had
been the quarterback and leader of his high school football team
in Bloomington, Minn. In 2001, at age 38, he was the senior vice
president of a medical research company in California.  On
September 11, 2001, he wa