09-15-2015, 02:05 AM
Hey tigerlion-
I appreciate how you characterize a passenger awakening to the "surgeon" (with a box cutter) and lighting up on the plane (which has not been allowed for a long time).
That final act of "defiance" (smoking on a plane) is very weird: not knowing how to react, the passenger acts in a way that oddly makes sense, to me...
Good one. It seems that 14 years on, there is still a lot of pent up emotion regarding this event in American history.
My only minor issue: I don't know that the passengers had much time to snooze before all hell broke loose on those planes. Quite frankly, though, it is a scene that my brain avoids. In fact, whenever news comes on telling of innocents dying (esp children) I have to turn from it, as I just cannot stomach such events. I try very hard not to allow myself to be de-sensitized to the continuing madness, and the few examples that I have experienced in real life just make it too G.D. difficult to see it packaged as news. God help me should I ever fail to be shocked, and God help me even more when I need the strength to react in real time, in real life.
...Mark
I appreciate how you characterize a passenger awakening to the "surgeon" (with a box cutter) and lighting up on the plane (which has not been allowed for a long time).
That final act of "defiance" (smoking on a plane) is very weird: not knowing how to react, the passenger acts in a way that oddly makes sense, to me...
Good one. It seems that 14 years on, there is still a lot of pent up emotion regarding this event in American history.
My only minor issue: I don't know that the passengers had much time to snooze before all hell broke loose on those planes. Quite frankly, though, it is a scene that my brain avoids. In fact, whenever news comes on telling of innocents dying (esp children) I have to turn from it, as I just cannot stomach such events. I try very hard not to allow myself to be de-sensitized to the continuing madness, and the few examples that I have experienced in real life just make it too G.D. difficult to see it packaged as news. God help me should I ever fail to be shocked, and God help me even more when I need the strength to react in real time, in real life.
...Mark