She was only twenty-seven years old. In the final minutes of her life, she did not ask her family to comfort her. Instead, Honor Elizabeth Wainio used her last phone call to prepare them for a grief she knew she would never have to carry.
Everyone called her Lizz.
Just days before September 11, 2001, she had returned from a long-awaited trip to Europe. She attended a friend’s wedding in Florence, walked through Paris, and lit a candle in a church for her grandmother.
Lizz once told her mother that seeing Paris would make her life complete.
But she believed she still had decades ahead of her.
She was a successful district manager for Discovery Channel Stores, responsible for locations across New York and New Jersey. Friends remembered her as energetic, organized, and deeply affectionate, someone who approached life with urgency and joy.
On September 11, Lizz boarded United Airlines Flight 93 in Newark for a business trip to San Francisco. Forty passengers and crew members were aboard, along with four hijackers.
At 9:28 that morning, the hijackers attacked the cockpit. The aircraft suddenly dropped hundreds of feet, and passengers were forced toward the rear.
Then phone calls began revealing the truth.
Planes had struck the World Trade Center. Another had hit the Pentagon. Flight 93 was not part of an ordinary hostage situation. The passengers understood that their aircraft was also being used as a weapon.
At 9:53, Lizz called her stepmother, Esther Heymann, using an Airfone.
Her voice was calm.
She spoke about the people she loved and tried to ease Esther’s fear. During the conversation, she said that what was happening would be much harder for her family than it was for her.
Facing death, Lizz was thinking about those who would survive her.
She also said she was going to be with her grandmother.
The call lasted about four and a half minutes. Near its end, Lizz heard the other passengers preparing to move toward the cockpit.
“I have to go,” she said. “They’re breaking into the cockpit. I love you.”
At 9:57, the passengers and crew launched their counterattack. They rushed forward, knowing exactly what failure would mean.
At 10:03, Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Everyone aboard was killed.
Investigators concluded that the hijackers intended to strike a target in Washington, most likely the Capitol. The passengers’ resistance prevented the plane from reaching it.
Today, forty wind chimes stand at the Flight 93 National Memorial, one for each passenger and crew member. Every voice remains separate, just as every life aboard was unique.
Lizz had plans, a career, people she loved, and a future waiting for her.
But when terror took everything else away, it could not take her compassion.
Thirty thousand feet above the earth, a frightened young woman chose to comfort others.
Honor Elizabeth Wainio died at twenty-seven.
But in her final minutes, she showed what courage can sound like when it speaks through love.
A bit more here on this lovely young woman, wantonly murdered by shitheel raghead terrorists on America’s second darkest day—the DARKEST being, hands down, when NYC shitlib fools disgraced themselves and their posterity forevermore by selecting the execrable Zoran MammyDamnJammy to be their mayor.
Happily, there are at least a handful of decent New Yorkers who, despite all odds, still do retain at least a modicum of honor, dignity, and self respect.
Families of 9/11 victims want to ban Mamdani from sacred 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero: ‘unwelcome guest’
Families of 9/11 victims are demanding NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani be banned from the 25th anniversary of the attacks at Ground Zero, branding him an apologist for Islamic terror whose presence would be an insult to the memories of nearly 3,000 people murdered.“Our objection is based on his public record — his failure to meaningfully acknowledge the horror of that day, and his employment of, support for, or association with individuals who have minimized 9/11, defended terrorists, or even suggested America ‘deserved’ the attacks,” said Giovanni Galante – whose 29-year-old wife Grace Catherine Galante was among 2,977 innocents killed by al-Qaeda terrorists.
Galante, 55, is one of the organizers of a petition drive that has collected over 1,100 signatures in a little over a week, including from at least 300 victims’ families.
Good on ya, sir, and heartfelt condolences on the loss so cruelly inflicted on you all those years ago by The Friends Of Mamdani.
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