(AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma) Ran on: 08-31-2004 As Bailey watched the two terrorist-controlled planes collide with the World Trade Center in New York, Burnett called and told her he was on a third plane that had been . They responded: "Not yet. She was just traumatized. The news, analysis and community conversation found here is funded by donations from individuals. Though he was always a devout Catholic, she was surprised. She has been married to Rodney Bailey since June 2006. There are a dizzying array of organizations that claim some link to September 11 victims. Her calling has taken her from the courts of Hamburg, Germany, where she testified in 2003 at the trials of two alleged 9/11 conspirators, to Madison Square Garden in New York, where she spoke at the 2004 Republican National Convention. Deena Burnett of San Ramon spoke of her husband's reaction aboard Flight 93 on Sept. 11. Two years after the foundation was established, Tom Burnetts niece, Kathleen West, an English teacher, along with a history teacher created a social studies program for middle schools. He gave me a chance with a wonderful family.. As 10 oclock neared, the plane was rocking back and forth. I have great kids and wonderful memories, she said. Passenger Jeremy Glick also told his wife Liz of the plan to take back the plane, reportedly joking to her: "I have my butter knife from breakfast.". She was a Delta Air Lines flight attendant, and he was a regional sales manager. "Tom had a deep love for our country and treasured the faith in God upon which it had been founded," she writes. Deena Burnett, Self: National Geographic: Inside 9/11. The Final Minutes maintains that terrorists could have breached the locked cockpit with an extra key kept near the door. "I just answered their questions and we talked about what it means to be an angel, how he wouldn't be able to come back and it's not what he wanted. We have a bomb on board. They both wanted her to live, and that made all the difference in the world to us. They made us a family., Mariah grew up knowing she was adopted. He called Deena in the days that followed and the pair eventually went out to dinner together at a local Applebees. "Shall we finish it off?" Little Rock resident Deena Burnett-Bailey will be one of the latter group. DEENA21I-C-20APR02-MT-DB Deena Burnett, widow of Flight 93 hero, Thomas Burnett Jr., looks out over the crash site near a memorial in Shanksville, PA. UPDATE, 4/11/22: Since this articles original publication, further Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective. Arkansas native Deena Burnett Bailey lost her husband 20 years ago in the 9/11 attacks. We've received your submission. And I kind of smile when I hear people say that, because there was absolutely nothing ordinary about Tom Burnett. Four minutes after Flight 93 had taken off at 8:42 a.m., following a 40-minute delay the first airplane flew into the World Trade Center. He also ran briefly for governor in 2010 as an independent. Id waited so long to meet him, and I was two and a half years too late., Eventually, the Mills family contacted Burnetts family who said they wanted to meet Mariah. Not one thing.". By the end of the night, the roommate had given him all of their phone numbers. No! We have to do something, he said. After 10 years, you still see the country being bankrupted because of these nonjustified and ill-fated wars, and no one can stop them. On the back patio of her Little Rock home Monday, Deena Burnett Bailey combed through family photos. It's a suicide mission," he said, according to a transcript of the call. Burnett's other three daughters, Halley, Anna Clare and Madison, are now in their early 20s. Well, daddy had a little problem on the airplane. As chronicled in History 9/11: The Final Minutes of Flight 93, airing Friday at 8 p.m. on History, the bravery of passengers and crew aboard the United Airlines flight from Newark to San Francisco prevented death, heartache, destruction. GUEST ARTICLES: To submit a guest article to Live Action News, email editor@liveaction.org with an attached Word document of 800-1000 words. These are wonderful legacies for Toms memory because education was so important to him.. A calm voice greeted her on the other end of the phone. This story has been shared 131,702 times. But when she was first approached about writing her story, she declined. "And we want the men in our lives to aspire to be like Tom.". He was arrested three weeks before the attacks, but FBI officials said Moussaoui led them on wild goose chases up to the day of the attacks. Deena Burnett has remarried, and Mariah is a part of that family too. His sacrifice saved countless lives on 9/11 but to one woman, it was his sacrifice 16 years prior that truly made him a hero. I don't like the crowd. He asked his wife to call authorities and report a hijacking. "I couldn't hear anything in the background [of the call]," she said. I'll say this: They talked about how ordinary people were doing extraordinary things on that day. Anna Clare is a sophomore at Mount St. Mary Academy in Little Rock. And the way he died such a public death yet she had no way of knowing about it at the time, said Cathy Mills. At 9:56, the plane was near Shanksville when flight attendant Sandy Bradshaw called her husband. Mariah called a friend and said, I think my birth dad is dead. Years ago, I came across a transcript of a conversation between Tom Burnett, and his wife, Deena. First-class passenger Tom Burnett called home at 9:30 a.m. and told his wife, Deena, that a fellow passenger, Mickey Rothenberg, had been stabbed and murdered. Deena had been upstairs in her home, getting dressed for the day as she anxiously awaited Tom to call for a fourth time, then unaware of his tragic fate. "He was an incredible man, and I recognize that every single day, and I'm so grateful for the time that we had together. Burnett is buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minnesota. Ive raised them to be tough, but even when you are tough, there are still things that will pierce the exterior. In December, Deena went to Minnesota to meet Mariah. He certainly would have said goodbye to me, and he would have wanted to talk to his daughters. During his third and final call, he told her he and the other passengers had a plan to take back the plane, United Airlines Flight 93 was one of four commercial aircraft hijacked by al-Qaeda operatives on September 11, 2001, Tom never told Deena goodbye in any of their three calls. But victims relatives were allowed to hear it. How he wanted to say goodbye, but it happened so fast that he couldn't and that he didn't have a choice. "God must have had a good chuckle that day," she writes, "because my response was, 'He wants you to run for President!' But this year, Burnett Bailey is looking forward to being there. Her children grew up to start jobs and have lives of their own. Some profess political neutrality: Families of September 11, Voices of September 11th, Tuesday's Children. They were encouraged to call loved ones I suspect it was a way of showing [that the terrorists] were in control, said Bulling. Since then, she has been writing, speaking and protesting, and shes not done. None of the 44 onboard survived, Deena and Tom married in 1992. "He just was so incredibly capable of making things happen that other people could not make happen. And I was right. "Because of my. Anna Clare (second from left) attends Mount St. Mary Academy while twins Halley and Madison left for college for the first time this fall. If he had any inclination it wasn't going to be, he'd have spoken to the children, called his parents, and told her he loved her, she thought. "And he said 'don't worry, we're going to do something. We finally woke up to an enemy on 9/11 that had been attacking us for 13-14 years.The young men and women who have stepped forward wanting to protect this nation from this evil, they have. After the attacks, he told authorities he was a member of al-Qaida and had met with its leader, Osama bin Laden, who told him to pursue his dream of flying a plane into the White House. When Burnetts sister Mary Jurgens opened the door she said it was like looking at my little nieces all grown up. According to Primeau, two terrorists were struggling to take control of the cockpit. Taking the do something motto a step further, the Burnetts started a foundation that gives out leadership scholarships to students at the University of Minnesota, where Tom Burnett Jr. earned a masters degree; St. Johns University, where he received his bachelors degree; and a few other schools. Shes a member of a half-dozen peace organizations, and she just finished writing a 3,000-word paper on how top-secret America misfires, she said. I was real dismayed to see that elections come and go, but nothing seems to change on the issues, Rowley said. Deena Burnett is known for National Geographic: Inside 9/11 (2004), Dateline NBC (1992) and Home & Family (2012). Deena Burnett: You know, just the simple everyday things. Deena then asked her husband if there was anything she could do. Her husband, an executive with a Pleasanton medical devices company, was flying home that day from a business trip in New York. By 9:37, passengers were corralled past row 33. Then they ran up the length of a 757 with all their improvised weapons and you can hear them coming, says Hoagland. Tom Burnett Jr., a Bloomington native, was one of the heroes aboard Flight 93, the plane that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania on 9/11 after passengers overtook the hijackers. While Burnett was buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minnesota on May 24, 2002, his courage, faith and resilience were honored across the country for years. Deena said she just laid down and cried on the sofa for what felt like hours. And so I think that's why I think that he just thought, we have this plan in place if everything goes according to the plan, then we're going to survive this. "He was not your average guy, and you hear people say, 'Ordinary people doing extraordinary things,' - but there was nothing ordinary about Tom Burnett. She remarried in June. I would wake up in the morning and look at myself and see him, said Mariah. Because the best defense is a good offense.. His face, his nose and my eyes set like his. On 9/11, 38-year-old Burnett was aboard United Airlines Flight 93 when he and other passengers attempted to stop the terrorists who were piloting the plane from crashing into more buildings, killing more people. Deena's life and business Even though she never met her birth father, Mills said he is still a part of her. Those are my feelings, but they chose to do something else.. As our newest FACE of the South, she shares how she found strength, hope, and resilience after tragedy. Deena waited anxiously by the phone, but Tom wouldn't call again. Here are eight people with local connections whose lives were forever changed as a result of that day. "I think that people find it strange when I tell them that he didn't expect to die on that flight, but you would have to know who he was to understand," Deena said. (Ebony Blevins) She is philosophical about the life that sprang from the rubble of that day. Terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui had been arrested by the FBI here, but agents were told to hold off on an aggressive investigation that Rowley felt could have changed the outcome of the attacks. I thought people should be able to see what it was like, see what the people on the plane saw. Facebook gives people the power to. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. "Tom fought to maintain freedom in order to preserve our country and the values upon which it was founded," she writes. And theres usually a lot of people there. When I opened the door it was like, I know you. 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It just sounded like a normal flight otherwise.". Deena Burnett, who recently remarried, wrote a book inspired by her husband, Tom. Tom Burnett is a hero in more ways than one. He said it was against his nature to be separated from his child, and he really struggled with the decision to give me up., Soon, Deena told her daughters that they had another sister, and Mariah met her three younger half-sisters twins Madison and Halley and Anna Clare. The other two terrorists guarded the remaining 33 passengers and seven crew members. She moved from California, where the family had been living, to Arkansas, where she has family that have helped raise the girls, and eventually she wrote a book. Sometimes it is not noticeable and other times it is very noticeable. Recalling what she heard on the tape, Deena says, The hijackers realized that passengers and crew were coming to get them. When Madison and Halley went to Europe on a Mount St. Marys trip two years ago, I got all of that money out and showed them what it looked like. We told her she could look them up, find out who they were when she was 19.. She told him they were boiling water and are about to race to the front of the plane and attack the hijackers., The cockpit tape of Flight 93s final minutes remains classified by the FBI. Bailey said, It is beautiful to see 3,000 flags flying there. We each sort of get part of Tom back. From the start, she was determined to hear the cockpit voice recording of the flight's final moments. "He was just truly an extraordinary man," she said. She said she visits Arkansas at least once a year to spend time with her sisters, whom she was ecstatic to find since she had been an only child growing up. Learn More. (See here for Open License Agreement.) The Minnesota native began by telling Deena that the hijackers were now in the cockpit, and the person that they'd stabbed was dead. Though she never met her birth father, Mariah Mills Jacobsen misses him all the time. I was always hoping and praying that the people doing the memorial would leave it the way it was, not change anything, Beverly Burnett said. One of the most powerful and effective ways of keeping someones memory alive is talking about them and referencing the person in daily life and conversation. "I wasn't worried at first," she told The Sun of watching American Airlines Flight 11 slam into the north face of the North Tower. The telephone calls that I had with Tom. WARNING: This article contains disturbing images. Just nine years ago she and her three daughters were living in California, waiting on Sept. 11 for her husband, Tom Burnett, 38, to come home from a business trip. Considered the most secure federal prison, the facility is known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies. Moussaoui, 43, is assigned Federal Bureau of Prisons number 51427-054. In telling these stories, she has found that Tom's spirit is still alive in her. They fought against the odds to stop an airplane from crashing into the Capitol building.. You just knew the guy was going places. And Tom would have seen that as normal. Please also attach any photos relevant to your submission if applicable. ", At 10.01am, Jarrah asked again if he should crash the aircraft, to which this time he was told: "Yes, put it in it, and pull it down.". Deena continued: "On the second call, I told him other planes had been hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center buildings and suddenly he realized, as he said, it was a suicide mission - not just a hijacking. Movies. Moussaoui had previously taken flight lessons in Oklahoma. The pair married three years later, each of. She said she believed him when he told her everything was going to be okay. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Jarrah tried to deter the passengers by cutting off the oxygen to the cabin and pitching the plane from left to right in an attempt to knock them off balance. "He believed in right and wrong; he believed that we should do what's right; he believed there was always a way to overcome evil with good. The 2,200-acre memorial, which includes a 93-foot tower filled with 40 aluminum wind chimes, one to mark each passenger, 40 tree groves and a visitor and learning center, was dedicated Saturday. Repya, an outspoken supporter of veterans, officially retired after that tour. Today, a large part of the foundations mission revolves around two programs: scholarships and a middle-school social studies program. His flight had been hijacked. Only one did not meet its target. He also said he believed they had a bomb and a gun on board. Deena said he immediately began sharing the information with those seated around him. We never cashed it back in because he would usually use it on a return trip. She was inconsolable that day, telling her adoptive parents, I think one of my parents is dead.. She did just that. Then, he and Mark Bingham and Todd Beamer led a passenger revolt that has been called "the first counterattack in the war on terror.". "I could tell by the look on his face that something had happened," she recounted. Sometime in 2000, Tom told Deena he had begun going to Mass every day. She was waiting with their three daughters for her husband to return from a business trip. Hearing her husband's voice on that tape, she said, helped her to find some measure of closure. Since 9/11, Deena Burnett had moved back to Arkansas to be near her family to help raise the girls. As Deena recalls in the documentary, Tom told her, No. Pepperdine officials created an outdoor area on campus in 2003 named the Heroes Garden as a permanent tribute to 9/11 heroes, including Burnett. "We stayed in contact, and he finally convinced me that it would be something worthwhile to do for my children," she said last week by phone from Little Rock, Ark., where she moved to be closer to her own family. Now she wondered if his wife knew about Mariah. It sounds like the pilot has been moved away from the controls, Primeau says in the doc. I am putting a plan together. By Marilyn Lanford Memory objects have value far beyond their material and can be a great source of stories, memories, connection and comfort. I remarried after the fifth anniversary. You can hear a hijacker being hit, says Deena. "I have. Menu. He let out a cry and a wail as if he had been fatally struck.. While college students, Burnett, then 21, and his girlfriend, then 19, discovered they were expecting a baby. By preserving memories or starting a foundation, many people are still touched by the life of the California businessman from Minnesota. ', "And he yelled into the phone, 'No! "I just was so incredibly full of sorrow," Deena said. Flight 93 nosedived toward the ground at more than 500 miles per hour. Here is a timeline of the day: Email us at exclusive@the-sun.com or call 212 416 4552. "I want to tell you that I love you. In the following 20 minutes, Tom and a number of other passengers called loved ones and held a vote on whether to storm the cockpit or not. Deena Burnett remembers the call from her husband on Flight 93. In addition to her marriage in 2006, Bailey welcomed a stepson, Tanner, 24, into her new family. On September 11, 2001, Deena Burnett Bailey received a phone call that changed the course of her life. Deena Burnett-Bailey is remarried to Rodney Bailey, an Arkansas businessman, and she continues to speak publicly about Tom Burnett's life and heroic death. The stay-at-home mom, a former Delta Airlines flight attendant, then began rifling through the yellow pages, trying to figure out who to call to report a hijacking. When she told him about the World Trade Center, Tom realized Flight 93 was also a suicide mission and part of a terrorist plot. And there's usually a lot of people there. I hope that it will be very healing for us.. They asked her if they could still call Tom on his cell phone or send him a letter, but Denna had to tell them there are "no phones or mail in Heaven.". Their conversation is transcribed below. We are waiting until we get over a rural area. It crashed at 10:03 and 10 seconds. I absolutely froze," she recounted. All of his work shirts were blue and white with the same initials on them. "They have lived three-quarters of their lives without him," Burnett Bailey says while looking at a picture of her late husband, Tom Burnett, with their daughters. Its been lightly edited for clarity and length. Todd Beamer had been on a call with a telephone operator when Tom and the collective of other passengers gathered to strike. Since that day, in speaking engagements across the country, Deena Burnett has called for a return to the values her husband held dear -- and which he acted on: good citizenship, prayer and patriotism. People should know what he did for me. She is a graduate of the journalism school at the University of Minnesota and a native of Eastern Wisconsin, where she grew up eating good brats, good cheese and fresh vegetables from her dads garden. When I was talking to your dad on the phone? Within the hour, Tom called. 2,390 likes. I was trying to think who you call for a hijacking, she says in the documentary. Where it shocks the nation that a young man would stand up and do something, to the rest of us that was normal. In 2001, Maria Shriver interviewed Deena Burnett, the wife of Tom Burnett Jr., one of the brave passengers who fought back against the terrorists. I will never forget what happened to Deena Burnett. She gave her a University of Minnesota sweatshirt that Burnett had worn, a St. Thomas Aquinas medal like the one he had with him when he died, and a letter he had begun writing to Mariah when she was about two years old. 9/11: FIVE YEARS LATER / Deena Burnett's husband died a hero. A decision to scramble in which fighter jets surround an airplane and may shoot it down was still not reached. I think so. Deena says she sees Tom's story as a legacy for his children to carry on, and as a source of inspiration for others in how to act courageously in the face of evil and adversity. "Let's roll.". The pain may not ever fade away, but it can move backstage and allow for more experiences of comfort and gratitude. "I froze. Her grief was too fresh. It dredges up a lot of pain. You are part of us.'. The family of Tom Burnett has not let his death on 9/11 be forgotten. the pilot, Jason Dahl, was heard shouting over the sounds of a physical struggle. View the profiles of people named Deena Burnett. No! Giombetti recorded their telephone conversations, then transcribed and edited them, which lends the book its conversational quality. She eventually settled on her local police department and was then patched through to the FBI. 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She believes he genuinely believed he was going to take back the plane and survive, The hijackers of United Airlines flight 93 are pictured left to right: Ahmed Alnami, Ahmed Ibrahim A. al-Haznawi, Ziad Samir al-Jarrah, and Saeed Alghamdi, Flags line the crash site of where Burnett and 43 others died on 9/11, Tom's heroic actions on 9/11 were true to the person he was, Deena said, The plane crashed around 30 minutes before the South Tower of the World Trade Center fell, Deena, who has since remarried and relocated to Arkansas, said she has thought of Tom and 'felt every moment' of 9/11 every day for the last two decades, She hopes Tom's heroics will be a legacy for his daughters to carry forward, The Flight 93 National Memorial is pictured near Shanksville in Stoystown, Pennsylvania. 10 oclock neared, the hijackers realized that passengers and crew were coming to get them toward the ground more... 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