"Richard Guadagno worked as a federal employee for 17 years, the last year and a half in Humboldt County, where he worked, tirelessly by all accounts, to build a refuge headquarters that now bears his name. Co-workers, friends and family remembered him as someone who lived by his principles, was passionate about his work and enthusiastic.
He was flying back to the West Coast after a two-week vacation visiting family in New Jersey and Vermont when terrorists, under the direction of bin Laden, hijacked his flight.
But unlike hijacked planes flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Richard Guadagno's flight came down in a field in Shanksville, Pa., killing everyone on board. Those who knew him insist Richard Guadagno was one of the passengers who fought back against the terrorists, causing the plane to crash in that field instead of its intended target, which some believe was the White House."
"Rich died a hero on Flight 93, one of many who prevented further tragedy at the cost of their own lives," said Steve Thompson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's California Operations manager, at the time.
-Thadeus Greenson - 2011 Times-Standard
He is also listed on the Flight 93 National Memorial here
He was flying back to the West Coast after a two-week vacation visiting family in New Jersey and Vermont when terrorists, under the direction of bin Laden, hijacked his flight.
But unlike hijacked planes flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Richard Guadagno's flight came down in a field in Shanksville, Pa., killing everyone on board. Those who knew him insist Richard Guadagno was one of the passengers who fought back against the terrorists, causing the plane to crash in that field instead of its intended target, which some believe was the White House."
"Rich died a hero on Flight 93, one of many who prevented further tragedy at the cost of their own lives," said Steve Thompson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's California Operations manager, at the time.
-Thadeus Greenson - 2011 Times-Standard
He is also listed on the Flight 93 National Memorial here
"Richard Guadagno worked as a federal employee for 17 years, the last year and a half in Humboldt County, where he worked, tirelessly by all accounts, to build a refuge headquarters that now bears his name. Co-workers, friends and family remembered him as someone who lived by his principles, was passionate about his work and enthusiastic.
He was flying back to the West Coast after a two-week vacation visiting family in New Jersey and Vermont when terrorists, under the direction of bin Laden, hijacked his flight.
But unlike hijacked planes flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Richard Guadagno's flight came down in a field in Shanksville, Pa., killing everyone on board. Those who knew him insist Richard Guadagno was one of the passengers who fought back against the terrorists, causing the plane to crash in that field instead of its intended target, which some believe was the White House."
"Rich died a hero on Flight 93, one of many who prevented further tragedy at the cost of their own lives," said Steve Thompson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's California Operations manager, at the time.
-Thadeus Greenson - 2011 Times-Standard
He is also listed on the Flight 93 National Memorial here
He was flying back to the West Coast after a two-week vacation visiting family in New Jersey and Vermont when terrorists, under the direction of bin Laden, hijacked his flight.
But unlike hijacked planes flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Richard Guadagno's flight came down in a field in Shanksville, Pa., killing everyone on board. Those who knew him insist Richard Guadagno was one of the passengers who fought back against the terrorists, causing the plane to crash in that field instead of its intended target, which some believe was the White House."
"Rich died a hero on Flight 93, one of many who prevented further tragedy at the cost of their own lives," said Steve Thompson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's California Operations manager, at the time.
-Thadeus Greenson - 2011 Times-Standard
He is also listed on the Flight 93 National Memorial here
Inscription
Beloved Son and Brother, Protector of the Environment, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Defender of Freedom, United Flight #93, September 11, 2001
