Can't They Be Happy?

Can't the media ever be happy with anything?

They are now using an FBI analysis to cast doubt on the idea that the passengers of Flight 93 forced the airplane to the ground.

So the hijackers may have deliberately crashed the airplane to end a passenger uprising. Or they may not have. Either way, the actions of the passengers on that flight directly led to the series of events that brought the plane down in Pennsylvania instead of Pennsylvania Avenue.

The passengers are still heroes. Maybe they didn't get to the hijackers before the plane plowed the field, but the hijackers didn't get to their goal either. The passenger died in a valiant and successful effort to prevent the deaths of thousands more Americans; the terrorists died in a blaze of abject failure.

Short of the revelation that Flight 93 crashed due to a combination of a massive computer and mechanical failure, we don't need to be calling into question the value of the heroism of the passengers. They took action to earn our respect; they deserve to be honored with it.