Always a Passenger

[Tiger the Lion]

Hey Mark. Thanks for reading and commenting. This was meant as a nod to heroes, of which I am not one. Thank God for those who have the disposition for bravery and important work. I do not. Taken literally, you are of course correct about the snoozing. I don't want to go off on a tangent out of respect for the subject matter, but thanks again for your comments, here and throughout the site. Much appreciated.
Paul

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