Hat tip to Muttering in Manitoba:

Forty Lives: One Destiny

Just go there and look at the photos of those who lost their lives on United Flight 93. Their biographies should not be missed.

Like Deora Bodley.

"She was always thinking big and going after big game," said Chris Schuck, who
taught Bodley as chairman of the English department at La Jolla Country Day
School near San Diego, Calif.
As an 11-year-old, she wrote in one of her
journals, "People ask who, what, when, where, how and why. I ask peace."

Bodley, was a junior at Santa Clara University, where she majored in
psychology. An insightful writer who was fluent in French, she coordinated
college volunteers in a literacy program at a nearby elementary school.

Kathy Almazol, principal at St. Clare Catholic Elementary, said Bodley
had "a phenomenal ability to work with people," whether it was the children she
read to, her peer volunteers or the school administrators and teachers.

"We have 68 kids who had a personal association with Deora," Almazol
said.
Bodley wanted to be a child psychologist because she saw the problems
children faced growing up.

Growing up with her mother in San Diego --
her parents divorced when she was 2 -- Deora, which is Gallic for "tears,"
always seemed older than her age. She traveled with her father to Switzerland
when she was just 3 1/2 and often flew to the East Coast.
Schuck remembered
reading one of her middle school homework papers and being struck by her
honesty.

"You'd read her work and say, 'Am I that honest and truthful
with myself?' " he said.
As a high school student, she had enthusiastically
traveled to area high schools to discuss sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS
with her peers. She also volunteered with the Special Olympics and a local
animal shelter.

"She was just burning way too bright," said her mother,
Deborah Borza.

She recently found a journal entry written by her
daughter when she was 13.

"If I would just live for the moment," the
entry went, "and make every moment count, maybe the future would work out. Maybe
that moment would be a doorway to the future."