Monday, February 09, 2004

Read this, and Rember Those Left Behind

From the Denver Post comes this touching story of the widow of one of the pilots murdered on 9/11. It opens:
A week after United Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001, Sandy Dahl had a dream about her husband, one of the pilots aboard the four ill-fated planes that day.

In the dream, she and her husband, Jason Dahl, were each piloting F-16 fighter jets. The dream was a reminder for Sandy Dahl: Jason had hoped to fly "the Porsche of aircraft" during his life and counted his 25th birthday - the cutoff age for entering flight school for F-16s at the time - as one of saddest days of his life.

Sitting in a briefing room at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora on Sunday, minutes before living out her husband's dream to see the world from the cockpit of an F-16, Sandy Dahl recalled "the most real dream I've ever had."
Go read.

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