Barbara K. Olson, 45, an author, legal analyst and former federal prosecutor and congressional lawyer, was a passenger on board American Airlines flight 77. Before the plane was crashed into the Pentagon, she phoned her husband, U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson, and told him how terrorists had taken over the plane.
   She graduated from Cardozo Law School in New York and became a prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington. As chief investigative counsel for the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, she investigated the White House travel office firings. She also was the author of two books. She had recently joined the law firm Balch & Bingham.
   She and her husband often invited congressional staffers and Supreme Court justices to their home. After the 2000 election, he argued the Florida election case before the U.S. Supreme Court while she advised the team representing President George W. Bush on the legalities of the absentee ballot count. She was "a smart and deliberate strategist," said David Bossie, a former colleague. "They had a really terrific relationship."
   We will not forget her.

   Ruben S. Ornedo was a lead engineer for Boeing Satellite Systems of El Segundo, Ca. He was a passenger on American Airlines flight 77.
   He earned a degree in computer engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles. At work he was known as Ornedo the Tornado for his hard work and diligence. For more than 15 years at Hughes and Boeing, he played a key role in projects that were of vital importance to the defense and security of the nation.
   He loved nature, the outdoors, world travel and home renovation. He was an easy-going man who was always concerned about others.
   Survivors include his wife Sheila.
   We will not forget him.