As America seeks to honor the heroes of United Airlines Flight 93, it would be easy to overlook two elderly sisters-in-law and best friends from Bayonne, N.J.
After all, since their families at first sought to grieve in private, their names are not on any official accounting of the doomed flight's passengers or on public lists of proposed honorees for the Congressional Gold Medal.
But in their quiet lives and good deeds, Patricia Cushing, 69, and Jane
Folger, 73, embody what is good and heroic about America.
