Monday September 17, 2001. <\/p>\n
I flew out of Logan Airport on my way to San Jose for a week-long business trip. <\/p>\n
It must have been the first full day of "normal" flying out of Logan after September 11th. <\/p>\n
It was one of the eeriest things I have ever experienced. Everything was "almost normal" even as it wasn’t the same at all.<\/p>\n
The airport was virtually empty. The plane was nowhere near full, which almost never happens on a Monday morning. The few of us that were traveling talked to each other much more than usual, as though sound could dispel the unreality of flying on this day, from this airport. <\/p>\n
I was on American Airlines, and you could feel the sadness of the clerks and flight attendants. And at the same time, they did their jobs as they always did, clearly using normalcy and routine as a coping tactic.<\/p>\n
As I suppose all of us who were not personally affected by the 9\/11 tragedy were doing at the time. <\/p>\n
We all know where we were when we heard about the first plane hitting the first tower, just as previous generations remember where they were when Kennedy was shot. <\/p>\n
This is my other most clear memory of that time in our collective lives — the departure lounge at Logan Airport on Monday September 17, 2001. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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