TODD BEAMER LAST WORDS UPDATE

“But it’s still OK if you remember us from time to time with a prayer.” Beamer declared himself a Christian, conservative and capitalist. “The Beamer household is all doing fine,” Beamer said.

TODD BEAMER LAST WORDS UPDATE

His last audible words were “Are you guys ready? OK, let’s roll.” His father gave the congregation a brief update on the family Todd left behind. Speaking on the phone to a customer-service representative, Beamer reportedly spoke of the passengers’ plans and recited “The Lord’s Prayer” with the operator. Beamer, a retired business executive, spoke about the day his son joined other passengers aboard United Airlines Flight 93 to thwart the hijackers’ plan to steer the plane, presumably toward Washington, D.C., and cause more destruction.

“We need to be watchmen to preserve whatever it is that we’ve got,” he said. The father of 9/11 hero Todd Beamer exhorted a Gainesville church Sunday to “be informed, aware and awake” as America still faces the “same enemy with new tactics and same objectives.” David Beamer, whose son’s expression of “Let’s roll” during a terrorist hijacking of his airliner became a rallying cry for Americans, spoke during a patriotic celebration at Lakewood Baptist Church off Thompson Bridge Road.

11, 2001, speaks to the congregation at Lakewood Baptist Church on Sunday morning. David Beamer, father of Todd Beamer who helped storm the cockpit of United flight 93 on Sept.