Depart from evil, and do good;
seek peace, and pursue it.
--Psalms 34:14
On Sept. 11, 2001, my parents were about to leave my apartment in Los Angeles to fly home after a two-week visit with me. My sister India called just as my stepfather Mike's hand was on the doorknob, ready to roll the luggage out to the rental car. She said frantically "Turn on CNN. A plane just flew into the World Trade Center. DO NOT allow Mom and Mike to go to the airport." Despite our reassurances to India that it was just an aircraft accident and everything was ok, we soon realized that it was a terrorist attack and that every airport on the country had been shut down. My parents were stuck in LA for the next 2 days, and they ended up flying to Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport on the first commercial airline flight that was allowed in the air after 9/11.
