09-11-2010
02:04 PM
139 Loves
On Labor Day weekend, 2001, I flew Southwest from MCO-LAX to visit some friends from San Diego. We walked through LAX like we owned the place. A week later I was watching a reporter stand at LAX, a group of Southwest tails behind her, talking about the events of 9/11, and I couldn't believe that just a few days ago I been at that very airport. Two weeks later one of those same friends was on a Southwest jet heading to Florida, we had begun dating while I was in California. We long distance dated for a year, about every 2-3 weeks one of us was on a plane crossing the country, every flight on Southwest sans 1; on a Delta 767 with about 50 people I flew to SAN after connecting in ATL. Gradually security got more reasonable, the planes got more passengers, and now, although I haven't been on a Southwest plane in over a year, I still wave to every one I see arriving or departing my home airport of PBI and tell her, "Fly safe pretty girl" May we never forget.
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