You want a reason to fight? To not lay down and just take it?

You dont need a reason. You just need to remember. This nation was built on the backs of people like this, Roanoke was built the same way.

Courtesy of the NY Daily News, the transcript of the audio recordings from Flight 93, September 11th, 2001.

Excerpts from the cockpit tapes of Flight 93. The Arabic has been translated into English:

9:31

Hijacker: Ladies and gentlemen, here the captain, please sit down keep remaining seating. We have a bomb on board. So sit.

9:34

Hijacker: Down!

Passenger: Please, please don’t hurt me.

Hijacker: Down. No more.

Passenger: Oh, God.

9:35

Passenger: I don’t want to die

Hijacker: No, no. Down, down

Passenger: I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.

9:52

Hijacker: The best thing: the guys will go in, lift up the ... unintelligible... and they put the ax into it. So everyone will be scared.

9:57

Hijacker: A fight?

Hijacker: Let’s go guys.

Hijacker: Allah is greatest. Allah is greatest. Oh guys. Allah is greatest.

Sounds of struggle

Hijacker: They want to get in here. Hold, hold from the inside.

9:59

Hijacker: There are some guys. All those guys.

Passenger: Let’s get them

10:00

Hijacker: Is that it? Shall we finish it off?

Hijacker: No, not yet.

Hijacker: When they all come, we finish it off.

Someone cries out

Passenger: I’m injured.

More shouts

Hijacker: Oh Allah. Oh Allah. Oh Gracious

Passenger: In the cockpit. If we don’t, we’ll die.

Passenger: Roll it

10:02

Passenger: Move. Move.

Passenger: Turn it up.

Hijacker: Pull it down. Pull it down.

Planes starts to flip over

Passenger: Push, push, push, push, push, push.

Hijacker: Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.

Passenger: No!

Hijacker: Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.

with the realization that the whole plane was going belly-up, they still fought.
Would you?