9/11

Due to business reasons, this last weekend I was to be traveling to and from LA. It was on my flight back to Salt Lake that I met Cheri Hill, a flight attendant who has been doing her job for 15 years. I had the amazing opportunity to talk to her about where she was when 9/11 happened.

"On 9/11, I was on a morning flight in Cleveland, Ohio. We were at the gate and we started to push back, and that's when we discovered what happened. We were stuck in Cleveland for four days. We couldn't go anywhere. We were away from family and friends and it was very impacting. It changed everything as a flight attendant for us, and for all of aviation."

I asked Cheri if she was scared to go back to work, her response; "No. Because then they had won. If I was scared then they would have accomplished their goal, and I wasn't going to let that happen."

Cheri also told me of how difficult and hard it was for everyone to go back to work after the four days.

"After the four days, I had a passenger who was trying to board with a frying pan, and security made him take it out of the box, so you could imagine our fear, it was a frying pan, that's when I kinda knew it was going to take awhile before things got worked out. I asked him 'Are you a Culinary Chef?' and he said, 'Yes.' and the captain and I looked at each other, like, he's got a frying pan... it was weird, things just took awhile. But I am not scared and I am happy to be here."