The only issue I took with the movie was in the English translations of what the Hijackers were saying. I’m offended that Greengrass used “God” in place of “Allah”. God and Allah are not the same and it’s important the world understand the difference. God is the Creator of the universe, whereas Allah is someone created by a man named Muhammad. There is hard evidence in the Bible of God’s existence from the beginning of time and man’s record of history only confirms it. I encourage you to visit http://www.godandscience.org/ and http://www.evidenceofgod.com/ for more information.

Just know that the “God” the producer show’s the hijackers praying to is not the same God we know as the Creator of the universe. God came to us in the form of a man thousands of years after creating man and the universe. He came to make provision for us to be with Him in our afterlife for eternity. Because He came to us fully God and fully man we now are given the opportunity to accept Him as our Savior and live a more fruitful life here on earth and live forever in Heaven. The Bible tells us that God is love (1 John 4:8, 1 John 4:16). God does not tell anyone to kill others because they don’t believe the same way. Instead God tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves and that is what America does when it supports Israel and the slew of other countries we help every year (Matthew 19:19). The fundamental difference is that Allah spreads hatred and intolerance, whereas God spreads love and grace.

And to the comment about Lennon’s song Imagine… how about a song by Mercy Me instead, “I can only imagine…”
“I can only imagine what it will be like, when I walk by Your side…
I can only imagine, what my eyes will see, when Your Face is before me!
I can only imagine. I can only imagine.
Surrounded by Your Glory, what will my heart feel?
Will I dance for you, Jesus? Or in awe of You, be still?
Will I stand in Your presence, or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing ‘Hallelujah!’? Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine! I can only imagine!

I can only imagine, when that day comes, when I find myself standing in the Son!
I can only imagine, when all I will do, is forever, forever worship You!
I can only imagine! I can only imagine!

Surrounded by Your Glory, what will my heart feel?

Will I dance for you, Jesus? Or in awe of You, be still?
Will I stand in Your presence, or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing ‘Hallelujah!’? Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine! Yeah! I can only imagine!

Surrounded by Your Glory, what will my heart feel?

Will I dance for you, Jesus? Or in awe of You, be still?
Will I stand in Your presence, or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing ‘Hallelujah!’? Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine! Yeah! I can only imagine!

I can only imagine! Yeah! I can only imagine!! Only imagine!!!
I can only imagine.

I can only imagine, when all I do is forever, forever worship You!
I can only imagine.”

Finally, I do recomend the movie, because we do need to remember exactly what kind of war we are fighting. We are not at war against ourselves or our own government, we’re in a Holy War declared by a very unholy people. God is the God of Israel and America stands with Israel now and forevermore. God is the God of America. God wants to be God of your life, too. He has loved you from the beginning. Come back to Him today. Blessings to all! http://www.wayofthemaster.com

Among that flight were passengers:

Christian Adams
Todd Beamer
Alan Beaven
Mark Bingham
Deora Bodley
Marion Britton
Thomas E. Burnett Jr.
Willam Cashman
Georgine Rose Corrigan
Patricia Cushing
Joseph DeLuca
Patrick “Joe” Driscoll
Edward Porter Felt
Jane Folger
Colleen L. Fraser
Andrew Garcia
Jeremy Glick
Lauren Grandcolas
Donald F. Greene
Linda Gronlund
Richard Guadagno
Toshiya Kuge
Hilda Marcin
Waleska Martinez
Nicole Miller
Louis J. Nacke II
Donald and Jean Peterson
Mark “Mickey” Rothenberg
Christine Snyder
John Talignani
Honor Elizabeth Wainio
Kristin Gould White

Also the Crew:

Jason Dahl
LeRoy Homer, Jr.
Lorraine Bay
Sandra Bradshaw
Cee Cee Lyles
Wanda Green
Deborah Anne Jacobs Welsh

For them it was an ordinary day…little did they know that it would turn into a life or death situation. The hijackers of that plane were:
Ahmad Ibrahim A.
Al Haznawi,
Saeed Alghamdi,
Ahmed Alnami,
Ziad Samir Jarrah

These are the events that I know of.

At 8:42 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 leaves the ground 25 minutes late.
about 4 minutes after that American Airlines Flight 11 Crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Centers.
At 9:03 a.m. American Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the South Tower.
At 9:24 a.m. First Officer LeRoy Homer Jr. recieve a message from Ed Ballinger, flight dispatcher for United saying…”Beware of Cockpit Intrusion”

At aprox. 9:28 a.m. the hijackers took over the plane claiming to have a bomb on board the aircraft. Around this time Thomas E. Burnett makes a phone call home to his wife, Deena telling her about the hijacking.

9:34 a.m. Thomas Burnett makes a second phone call home telling Deena the hijackers are in the cockpit. Deena then tells him about the attacks on the World Trade Center.

9:35 a.m. Flight 93 begins to reverse directions and heads East.

9:37 a.m. Passenger Jeremy Glick calls his wife Lyz at her parents house telling her about the hijacking. She remembers him saying “I can’t believe this is happening to me.” Another passenger Lauren Grandcolas calls her husband and tells him she loves him. Just then American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon.

Between this time and 10:00 a.m. several passengets call their loved ones and tell them what is going on.

10:00 a.m. At aprox. this time Bill Wright and Holli Joiner are flying in a small plane mapping agriculture over western Pennslyvania. Descending in response to Cleavlean Centers order to land. At about 7,000 feet they spot U.A. Flight 93 about 1,000 feet above them. They report seeing the wings of the plane rocking back and forth (we believe this was an attempt to knock passengers over while they were attemping to regain controll.) The cockpit recorder records the last 30 mins. of the planes flight. A passengers voice can be heard saying ..in the cockpit! if we don’t we’ll die. Another yells let’s roll (believed to be Todd Beamer) The recorder captures the sound of the passsengers trying to get into the cockpit. Three F-16 fighter jets scramble around the Washington area. They are still unaware that Flight 93 has even been hijacked.

10:01 a.m. Andrew Garcia makes a phone call home to his wife, Dorothy. He only has time to say “Dorothy”. Before the he is cut off.

10:02 a.m. The cockpit recorder captures the hijackers saying “Pull it down!”, “Pull it down!” and “Allah is the greatest.”

10:03 a.m. Flight 93 crashes into an empty field in Shanksville, PA. Paula Pluta of Stonycreek Township saw the plane crash behind some trees about 1,500 yards from her home. She is the first person to report the crash to emergency services.

10:28 a.m. The North Tower of the World Trade Centers Collapses just 25 mins. after Flight 93 crashes.

I know this was more of a timeline then a review but I feel it’s important that we remember these events as they were a BIG part of our history. And that we remember the heroes of 9/11 such as: Passengers/crew of United Flight 93, American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77. And the firefighters, police officers, and all those who helped cleaning up with 9/11. Also to all the people on the ground that have witnessed this horrible day in history.

NOTE TO VICTIMS FAMILY/FRIENDS: May God be with you and your lost ones. We will always remember they’re brave hearts and kind souls. We will keep them in our prayers and thoughts.

But before I forget what this was about…the movie may have come out at the wrong time but it’s here and we should embrace as we remember the Heroes Of Septemeber 11, 2001.

May God be with you and god bless you all,

Samantha S.

As for William,

Well all I would recommend to you is that you go to a movie by choice. If you do not like the movie and since the media made every effort to let people know that this movie was emotional you had every opportunity to pick another one.

I am sure that no one held a gun to your head to see it. But there isn’t an arguement out there that can be made that this movie was too early to come out. My feeling is since the family of the members of that flight agreed to this movie it doesn’t matter what we the viewers have to say. They live that day every day. Outside of the other familiy members from the other crash sites, most Americans have forgotten about that day. Just look at the attitude of people today. Some even think the government conspired to have this happen. And for those that believe that BS I have some swamp land cheap here in Florida.

Our government has screwed a lot of things up, but we as Americans need to understand that there are people that want to kill us just because of who we are and where we come from. And those people are not 80 year old ladies flying to see their family for the last time. America is the most giving country on the face of the planet and will continue to be. But even with that if you believe the lies that are stated on TV every day you would think this was the worst country on the planet. Yet as Nicholas pointed out people are dieing every day to come to this country. I guess we still have some sort of appeal?

[quote] Hollywood has some duty to show us some realistic version of what life was like in a certain time. [/quote]

Please don’t tell me that you are that ignorant.

As for the movie, It was the best movie I have seen in years. I recommend it to anyone. It seemed to just tell a story of a very ugly day in our nations history.

For those that think we should move on, would they also say that we need to move on from hurricane Katrina. I bet not. See I am from the state of Florida and we have had 7 hurricane hit this state in the last two years yet you never hear very little about that in the news. The news keeps talking about New Orleans and forgetting that it was not wiped off the map like other cities along the coast in Mississippi. Because those other cities don’t bring the rascial issue to the forfront it becomes a juiceless story to them. As much as I hated seeing what happened to those people that were stranded on roof tops I still have to put the responsibility of them staying in their house on them and not the local, state, or federal governments responsibility for that decision.

What I do believe is that when this happens again, and it will, those peopel who want to stay behind in their houses are forced to leave no matter what. Mother Nature is very harsh at times and she can destroy anything man makes. That has been proven time and time again. What those stubborn people have to understand is that everything they own can be replaced. No matter how poor they are. But a life can’t and we should instill in every citizen that each and every life is valuable and no amount of money can replace it once it is gone. If a person is left or makes it a point to stay behind without anyone knowing then if they are left stranded then they have only themselves to blame. This country would make a huge step in the right direction by preaching personal responsibility again. Not this attitude of who can I blame or what can I blame for my stuppidity.

If I were to go to a theater and see a movie, I go to be entertained, or put on the edge of my seat in suspense. None of these happened today. What disgusted me about the film was the whole point of the movie. I think this movie came out 15 years too early.

I would have much rather seen Over the Hedge.

I saw the film last week and I’m recommending it… not to “wallow” but as a reminder about what we faced on that day and still do today. Your review and recommendation is the first I’ve found on left-of-center blogs and I actually find that sad. The film is non-political but too many blogs I’ve visited can’t help but see this film without hostility.

To Mike R

I won’t pretend to understand why your daughter perceives “loss of our freedoms” (which one) more “worthy of hate” then the worst act of war perpetrated upon American soil in its history. But let me tell you about the reaction of my daughter’s boyfriend, whose father IS a United pilot and United 93 was one of his regular routes - so there was a combination of horror, “that could have been me” guilt, and grief at the loss of friends. This young man has completed his bachelors, almost completed his masters (this summer), gotten his private and commerical pilot’s licenses and this October will be entering the Navy to train as an officer and fighter pilot. Many of my daughters’ friends, high schoolers from privileged families at the time of 9/11, have joined the military … specifically because they want to give back and they are clearer on just what we are fighting, even as the “adults” are not.

I continued watching, realising my nervous habits were beginning and how many emotions were running through my head, I honestly was afraid I might have a heart attack watching the fear and aghony on the people’s faces..But I must say, because I was so young, it was tough for me to understand what truly happened that day and I thank those who participated in making this movie for showing me what happened that day, because I now have a greater care for the event that took place when I was say only 7 or 8 years old. I left the theatre that night awe struck but also feeling a little pressure, knowing that me, and kids my age are the ones that are going to be depended on to keep things like this from happening again.

Well, I’d like to close this saying..that I recommend the movie..