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From: Elizabeth Vandiver <ev23@umail.umd.edu>
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Agreed. The Thermopylae parallel occurred to me, too--especially
regarding  the Laconic  final words of one of those passengers, "Let's
roll."

I also found myself thinking of Byron: "Earth! Render back from out thy
breast / A  remnant of our Spartan dead,/ Of the three hundred grant but
three, / To make a new Thermopylae."

EV

Diana Wright wrote:

> Changing the subject, though perhaps not the concept:  for an account
> of a modern Thermopylae, read Newsweek's account of what happened 9/11
> on the plane that went down in Pennsylvania.  The writing is painfully
> sentimental but the story is magnificent.
>

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