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I did not know this because I am old and no longer know anything of popular culture, but there is a movie coming out April 28 about the hijacked airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11. One of those killed was flight attendant Sandy Bradshaw of Greensboro.

The movie is called "Flight 93," and you can find info about the movie at Flight93.net. You also can view trailers for the film here. I say you can; I can't, at the moment, because apparently my QuickTime plugin isn't new enough and I'm not allowed to upgrade plugins on my office machine on my own. (Don't get me started on that subject.)

Whether you should look at the trailers is another question altogether. A blogger whose work I frequently read, Edward at Obsidian Wings, said this about it:

I am actually quite amazed at my reaction to the trailer of the upcoming film about Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11. I read this introduction on [blogger Andrew] Sullivan's site and thought, "Sure..., yeah, whatever":
When you see this trailer, you'll either start choking up, or think that Hollywood's exploitation of tragedy has finally gone too far. I choked up.

So I foolishly watched the trailer. There's not much to it actually; it's mostly just voiceovers. Yet suddenly, I want to crawl into a corner and cry ... just cry. I'm sorry, but it's much too soon.

Maybe our IT folks know what's best for me in ways that have nothing to do with computers. At any rate, click on that trailer link at your own emotional risk.

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