Tom McMillan has spent a lifetime in media and communications - as a newspaper sports writer for the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette , among others, as a radio talk-show host, and for the past 17 years as Vice President of Communications for the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. He is the author of Flight 93 . He also serves on the board of directors of Pittsburgh's Heinz History Center, on the marketing committee of the Gettysburg Foundation, as a tour guide for the Civil War Room at Carnegie Library, as an adjunct professor of media and marketing at Point Park University and as a volunteer at the Flight 93 National Memorial.