When 9/11 happened I was not an employee of SWA, but my Mother was a flight attendant for United Airlines. She often flew trips out of the East Coast, but lucky for her she had just gone through back surgery and was not working that day. We were on the phone with each other for hours after the 2nd plane hit.
We all will remember that day. Me, I remember every single thing, every detail. I remember calling my boss and telling him I'd be late, I remember driving on the highway to work that morning and watching all these planes descend. It was the strangest thing. I remember trying to get on the internet for any type of news detail, but CNN, ABC News, Fox News, etc. You couldn't get on their websites, they're were too many people doing the same thing I was.
One thing that worries me about the world today is that people are forgetting what happened. I realize we should go on with our lives, but that friendliness and caring for each other (remember how it was for weeks afterwards?) is no longer shown.
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