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The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent Americans, American institutions, and the symbols of American democracy, took heroic and noble action to ensure that the aircraft they were aboard could not be used as a weapon.

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Arlen Specter
Age: 82 †
Born: 1930
Born: February 12
Died: 2012
Died: October 14
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