More than 500 Sailors and Marines assemble on the flight deck of the USS Belleau
Wood Friday Sept. 6, 2002 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the September
11 terrorist attacks on the United States by spelling out the now famous quote from
Mr. Todd Beamer, Lets Roll. Beamer was one of the heroic passengers on United Flight
93, which crashed in a western Pennsylvania field after he and several other passengers
attempted to regain control of the plane from terrorist hijackers. Many believe theterrorists
were heading for Washington, D.C. Currently deployed in support of Operation Enduring
Freedom, the 40,000-ton amphibious assault ship is the lead element of a three-ship
Amphibious Readiness Group (ARG). The ship carries a crew of 1,000 Sailors and more
than 1,300 Marines of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable)
based at Camp Pendleton, Calif. (AP Photo/ U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographers
Mate Steven L. Cooke.)
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