Richard Guadagno
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Richard Jerry Guadagno (September 26, 1962 - September 11, 2001) was a passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93 when it was hijacked. It is believed Guadagno fought back against the terrorists on that flight. Guadagno was 38 years old and lived in Northern California. He worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [1] as the manager of the Humbolt Bay National Wildlife Refuge [2]. He had completed federal law enforcement training, and it's easy for his friends to imagine that he was involved in what is believed to have been a heroic effort by passengers to thwart the terrorist hijackers. "Richard would have been one of the ones to intervene," said Dave Paullin, his supervisor at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Guadagno, who spent 17 years with the agency, was a wiry 5-foot-8 dynamo - "in a word, intense," Paullin said - who wanted to be outdoors. A stained glass artist, Guadagno hunted, fished, camped, hiked, studied the stars and worked in his greenhouse. Guadagno spent most of the last year supervising work on a new visitor's center at the refuge. "He watched over that project like a mother hen," Paullin said. "He really wanted it to be an asset to the community. He was looking forward to showing off 'his' refuge." A local paper offers more details. He was engaged to be married and had recently returned from a vacation in Hawaii. He was on flight 93 because he was returning from a family celebration in New Jersey for his grandmother who had recently turned 100.
