She was the youngest person k!LLed on Flight 93. She'd only boarded that plane to get home one flight sooner. Her name was Deora Bodley. She was 20 years old. She was a double major in French and child psychology at Santa Clara University. She planning to become a child psychologist. She volunteered with animal shelters, Special Olympics, A*DS charities, and St. Jude's programs. She wrote letters to her little sister, Murial, ten years younger than her, in multi-colored markers. Before starting her junior year, Deora flew to the East Coast for one last visit with friends before summer ended. On the morning of September 11, 2001, she wasn't even supposed to be on Flight 93. She'd used the last of her cell phone battery to leave a message with her boyfriend's parents, letting them know she'd gotten a stand-by seat on an earlier flight home. Her mother was getting ready for work when the phone rang, a little after 7 a.m. It was her daughter's boyfriend's mother, calling from San Francisco, where Deora was due to land later that day. That's how Debby found out the flight had changed. And that the plane, United 93, had reportedly crashed somewhere in Pennsylvania. "My first reaction was, 'Thank you for letting me know," Debby said. "It's not that I think you're lying, it's just that I don't want to believe you." She dropped Murial at school. She went to her desk at work, trying to hold the news at a distance. The phone rang again. This time it was Deora's friend Aly, crying, blaming herself. Aly had a class that morning and hadn't been able to drive Deora to the airport for her original flight. They'd hugged goodbye that morning, and now Aly believed her friend had been on the plane that went down. Debby told her to find someone, not to be alone. She called United Airlines and left her information. She still wasn't ready to believe the worst. She went to a nearby Church to pray. "A quiet voice in my head said, 'She's with me," Debby said. Her phone rang one more time. A United Airlines representative, a woman named Sharon DeWitt, confirmed what Debby had been refusing to accept. Deora was gone. "I remember screaming in the church and yelling out, 'Not my baby!'" Debby said. S he doesn't know how long she cried before she remembered Sharon was still holding on the line. No amount of tears could bring their Deora back. Deora Bodley was 20 years old. She switched flights to get home one day sooner, to see the people she loved. She never got the chance to. - @fabrisgassmoney