This is obviously not the most timely post for a blog but a couple months don’t matter for such an event. I was on one of the first Jet Blue flights out of Long Beach, CA to JFK days after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. The flight was almost empty and I was the only customer on the Avis bus from the airport.
After my first day of sales calls, I went to ground zero with a friend and walked some of the perimeter of chain link fence that was serving as a barrier and also as a makeshift memorial for thousands who posted grief stricken messages and personal items. I had never witnessed NYC quiet, I was uncomfortable, recovery work was still underway, the work stopped to remove remains, I felt like an intruder. I snapped this image that caught my attention and that I shared with family on my return to Los Angeles.