Final Words of a United Flight 175 Passenger to His Wife on 9/11 Will Live on in Powerful Recording

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Final Words of a United Flight 175 Passenger to His Wife on 9/11 Will Live on in Powerful Recording

Minutes before United Airlines Flight 175 slammed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, 38-year-old Brian Sweeney made a phone call to his wife from the back of the plane.

“I’m on an airplane that’s been hijacked,” Sweeney said in a voicemail left to his wife, Julie Sweeney Roth. “If things don’t go well, and it’s not looking good, I just want you to know I absolutely love you, I want you to do good, go have good times—same to my parents and everybody—and I just totally love you, and I’ll see you when you get there. Bye, babe. I hope I call you.”

After leaving the message, Sweeney called his mother and told her he loved her before abruptly hanging up the phone, according to CNN. The call, made at 9:00 a.m. that morning, was completed three minutes before the plane crashed into the top floors of the South Tower.

Sweeney’s words can be heard at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, where people in attendance can pick up a telephone and hear the message for themselves, as Roth did, 16 years ago today.

Phone call from Brian Sweeney, passenger on Flight 175, to his wife pic.twitter.com/bA2uEubRFB

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Sweeney, from Barnstable, Massachusetts, served as a pilot in the Persian Gulf War and was an instructor for the Navy. At the time of the attacks, Sweeney was working for a Defense Department contractor, Brandes Associates. His calm, composed and loving message to his wife allows listeners to intimately reflect on those whose lives were taken that day. For Roth, her husband’s voice helped to give her comfort in the days following the attacks.

“He was a warrior, and you just didn’t believe that something like this could take him away,” Roth, who is now remarried, said in a video published by the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. “All I needed was that message, and I think he very selflessly left it. I don’t think he left it until he knew he wasn’t coming home.”

Imagine coming home and not being able to find your children anywhere in the house – in spite of the fact that you paid someone to take care of them.

It’s an awful thought and it’s precisely this which made it an effective lesson for one dad, Christopher, to use on his babysitter.

Christopher and his wife left for work one day recently when he realized that he’d left some important work documents at home and returned to the house.

What awaited him was NOT his kids having fun under the watchful eye of Sarah, the babysitter. Nor did he return to a scene of utter chaos – which would have in fact been understandable and preferable to what he did find.

Instead, when he came back, he found that the babysitter, Sarah sound asleep on the sofa.

So he decided to teach her a lesson. He took his kids out of the house and waited to see what she would do.

Two hours later, she got in touch with the Father.

Whether she was asleep the entire time, or turning the house inside out trying to find her charges we’re not sure but eventually she sent him a text.

It takes Sarah a while though to be clear on what’s “happened.” though.

Picking up on Christopher’s agitation and demands to know where exactly his kids are, she simply says “It’s not a texting matter.”

It takes a few texts for Sarah to admit that she doesn’t actually know where her employer’s children are.

After some prodding, Sarah then also reveals that she did eventually call the police – but then says “they didn’t pick up” which sounds a little weird.

Then Christopher comes clean – and threatens her with legal action.

Whether you think this is an extreme over-reaction or not, it’s safe to say that this is a lesson that the babysitter won’t be forgetting anytime soon!

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Where is Evie’s justice?’ Mother, 26, walks free after being convicted of bashing her eight-month-old daughter with a kitchen utensil – after judge rules the baby’s injuries ‘will get better’

Mother Walks Free After Bashing Ger Eight-month-old Daughter With a Spoon

A mother who bashed her eight-month-old daughter with a kitchen utensil has walked free from court with a good behaviour bond after a judge found the baby’s injuries were ‘likely to resolve’.
Lorien Norman, 26, pleaded guilty to causing harm with intent after beating her toddler daughter with a slotted spoon.
Although the offence carries a maximum sentence of 13 years, Norman did not spend a day behind bars.
She was instead given a two-year good behaviour bond and ordered to pay $500.

Pictured: Eight-month-old Evie after she was bashed by her mother with a slotted spoon and her hand

Mother Lorien Norman (pictured) could have been sentenced to up to 13 years behind bars

District Court Judge Jack Costello told Norman If she followed Community Corrections orders and did not reoffend in any way for two years she would not spend the minimum non parole period of 10 months behind bars.

The court heard Norman called police on October 1 last year, threatening to throw her daughter Evie off a balcony in Adelaide.

When police arrived, they found bruising to the girl’s face and took both mother and child to hospital.

A paediatrician found the toddler had ‘at least eight separate blows to the face and body’, with bruising on her forehead, cheeks, ears, neck and arm – caused by a slotted spoon and a hand.

Pictures of Evie after the attack show the young girl sporting a black eye with a small cut and dark bruises on her face.

Instead, Norman was allowed to walk free on a two year good behaviour bond following her sentencing last week

Initially, her mother attempted to persuade police the youngster had become bruised following a fall in a playground, the court heard.

Afterwards, Norman pleaded guilty to aggravated causing harm with intent – which carries a maximum sentence of 13 years.

Judge Costello told the Adelaide District Court last week: ‘Whilst any assault of a child, particularly one of such a tender age and vulnerability, by a parent stands as a gross breach of trust, your offending is nevertheless far from the most serious of offending of this type in terms of the degree of force involved and the duration of the offending’.

‘In this respect I particularly note the opinion of the treating paediatrician to the effect that there was no evidence of bony or intracranial injury and that your daughter’s physical injuries were likely to completely resolve,’ he continued.

Part of Judge Costello’s justification for not imprisoning Norman was that Evie’s injuries ‘were likely to completely resolve’

If Norman were to break the good behaviour bond, she would be sentenced to a minimum of 10 months behind bars

For Evie’s father, Shane McMahon, the sentence is beyond belief.

‘I’m disgusted – I’m truly speechless,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

‘I’ve raised both these girls [Evie and India, the second child he had with Norman] single handedly, and she gets 10 months of a sentence that carries a maximum of 13 years!

‘Where is Evie’s justice?’

Instead of heading to jail, Norman will be under the supervision of a community corrections officer.

She will be required to attend and complete any counselling, assessment or therapy programs deemed appropriate by the officer, and must not possess a firearm.

Daily Mail Australia have attempted to contact Ms Norman for comment.

Evie’s father Shane McMahon (pictured) says he has raised the youngster and her sister India ‘singlehandedly’

Evie’s father Shane McMahon told Daily Mail Australia he had been caring full time for the two daughters he had with Norman (pictured)

Evie’s father, Shane McMahon, says he is ‘speechless’ at the lenient sentence given to Norman