Beverly Eckert, 50, was widowed in the Sept. 11 attacks. After her husband died in the World Trade Center, she turned her grief into powerful advocacy. She helped force a reluctant Bush White House to create the 9/11 commission to investigate the attacks, and then helped push Congress to pass sweeping reforms of Americas secret intelligence agencies. (Douglas Healey/ AP)
Flight attendant Matilda Quintero of Woodbridge, N.J., was one of five crew members of the Continental Connection flight who died when the commuter plane crashed in suburban Buffalo, N.Y. (Jim Ferris / AP)
Lorin Maurer is shown with boyfriend and Butler University assistant basketball coach Kevin Kuwik. Maurer was the Athletics Friends Manager for the Princeton University Department of Athletics and Office of Development. (Princeton University / AP)
Alison Des Forges, 66, was heading home to Buffalo after an advocacy trip to Europe for Human Rights Watch, where she worked for the last two decades. Des Forges led a tireless, often dangerous campaign to bring to justice the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and other massacres. (Human Rights Watch / AP)
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Capt. Marvin Renslow of Lutz, Fla., was the pilot on Continental Flight 3407. (Jason Peregrine / AP)
