The other day, as my son dropped my husband and me off at the airport, I found myself reflecting on the way things were before the events of September 11, 2001.
It made me sad to realize that he had never experienced the more relaxed and personal environment that once existed.
Per CNBC:
“The entire industry, from airport security to flight attendant training to even the number of airlines in existence, was reshaped by the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history. That clear, blue morning in late summer, 19 hijackers turned four Boeing jetliners — two American Airlines and two United Airlines planes — into missiles. They crashed two of them into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon. The fourth crashed in a field in southern Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attack.”