Dear Sir/Madam,

I was moved to tears reading the article in today’s Telegraphy about the passengers aboard Flight 93, who, it seems, sacrificed their lives taking on the hijackers and preventing them from carrying out their fiendish plan (The quiet executive who defied hijackers, 18 September 2001).

It is heart-warming and reassuring to know that not only religious fanatics are capable of sacrificing their lives for what they believe to be a higher cause (in this case the murder of several thousand innocent people), but that ordinary, non-fanatical Americans, are also prepared and capable, when called upon, to sacrifice their lives for a higher cause: the saving of innocent lives.

Let those who cheered the martyrs who sacrificed their lives to murder cheer.

I stand in deep and silent respect for those who sacrificed their lives to save others.