Solemn faces, lowered flags, minutes of silences in the early hours of the morning marked the Sept. 11 ceremony at the Grapevine 9/11 Flight Crew Memorial commemorating 20 years since that fatal day in New York City.
Firefighters, police officers, airline personnel and friends and family gathered at the memorial to pay tribute to the civilians and first responders who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, when two hijacked airplanes were flown into the World Trade Center towers in New York City. A third plane was flown into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed into an empty field in Pennsylvania.
“[Today] we pause and reflect and remember, and we will never forget,” said Grapevine Fire Chief Darrell Brown.
Beverley Bass, the first female captain at American Airlines, recalls having to make an emergency landing of her flight from Paris to Dallas in Canada that fateful day because U.S. airspace was closed.
