ESPN’s Rick Reilly salutes the civilians who led the first counterattack of the war:

The first battle in the renewed war against terrorism wasn’t waged in Fallujah or Kandahar or Tikrit. It was held 32,000 feet above Pittsburgh, on Sept. 11, 2001.

And it wasn’t soldiers who led the battle.

It was four athletes, pushing a food cart.

President Bush saluted them today at the memorial service in Shanksville, PA: