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Tom Burnett Jr.'s name is inscribed on the 9/11 memorial at the World Trade Center complex in New York. (NCR photo/Camillo Barone) Send your thoughts to Letters to the Editor . Learn more September 11, 2026 Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email to a friend Print Martha Burnett Pettee can still remember the hug because it was unlike any her younger brother had ever given her. It was Saturday, Sept. 8, 2001, three days before Tom Burnett Jr. boarded United Airlines Flight 93. He had come home to Minnesota, and their mother, Beverly, had summoned the family for dinner in Bloomington.
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11, 2001, for the three Minnesotans who died that day. (Courtesy of Martha Burnett Pettee) Their mother had lost two children to stillbirth before Tom was born severely premature, weighing about 2 pounds and requiring multiple blood transfusions.
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