Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, providing citations to reliable, secondary sources, rather than simply listing appearances. This article appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. My fellow Americans, let's roll!" He used them again in the 2002 State of the Union address: "For too long our culture has said, 'If it feels good, do it.' Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: 'Let's roll.'" Cultural impact Bush invoked Beamer's words: "Some of our greatest moments have been acts of courage for which no one could have been prepared. In a November 8 address from the World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, President George W.
According to Jefferson, Beamer's last audible words were "Are you ready? Okay. Later, he told the operator that some of the other passengers were planning to attack the hijackers and regain control of the aircraft, after they learned about what happened at the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. He was also on the phone when the plane made a quick and violent turn. Beamer reported that one passenger had been killed and that a flight attendant had told him that both the pilot and co-pilot had been forced from the cockpit and may have been injured. On September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer, a passenger on the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93, tried to place a call through an air phone, but he was routed to a customer service representative instead, who passed him on to supervisor Lisa Jefferson.
The verb "roll" has been used in both the film and recording industry to signal the beginning of a film or audio recording. In the 1998 Season 3 episode of Xena: Warrior Princess titled "King Con", Xena uses the phrase "Let's roll" after practicing rolls with a set of dice as part of a plan to bankrupt a casino owner in revenge for an attack on Joxer. He knows he is facing imminent death, but tries to maintain decency, grace, and a sense of humor. The protagonist of Ernest Hemingway's 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees, Colonel Dick Cantwell, based on World War II commander Charles "Buck" Lanham, uses the phrase to his driver. The pair are lighthearted, youthful, irresponsible, and impossibly glamorous types, and the line delivery has a decisive insouciance about it. The protagonist of the 1937 supernatural comedy, Topper, played by Cary Grant, uses the phrase "Let's roll" to his wife, played by Constance Bennett, to indicate they should immediately exit their friend's stuffy office and find a drink. Heinlein, mentions a re-worded version of "The Roll of the Caissons" called "Road Songs of the Transport Cadets". " The Roads Must Roll", a science fiction story written in 1940 by Robert A. The phrase, "let's roll" has been used as early as 1908 in the cadence song now called " The Army Goes Rolling Along", which likely extended into tank usage. A less formal terminology would soon develop from the historic precedent.
At the lead the shout "Wagons roll!" from the head of the train would set the wagons rolling at the start of the day or at any time during. The American west was won by the wagon and in number the wagon train. ( September 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
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