A flight attendants true story. Returning to the air after watching two planes crash into the World Trade Center.

A flight attendant tells her true story about returning to the air after the 9/11 attacks. We hear her story and the story of her co-workers as they realize they must fly again. Selected as the Story of the Month at fanStory.com. It is available for free.

A flight attendant shares her true story about returning to the air after watching two planes crash into the World Trade Center. She and her co-workers must face the fact that they must fly again.

Read The Day America Cried" for free here: http://www.fanstory.com/displaystory.jsp?id=9774&ad=1

In this excerpt, her co-worker talks about what it was like to be in the air on the day of the attack.

"The passengers just kept staring at me! I know they were trying to see if I was afraid! Of course I was, I couldnt hide it! It was horrible! I couldnt stop crying! I tried to be brave and I tried to calm them, but I just couldnt"

In this excerpt she realizes her vulnerability as a flight attendant.

"Most frightening to me, were the means by which the hijackers gained access to the cockpit. They had murdered the flight attendants and passengers so the pilots opened the cockpit door to investigate the screams. As hard as I tried, I could not put that horrible thought out of my mind."

"The Day America Cried" was voted Story of the Month for September 2003.

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