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One quote not in the OP:
“She said it was her fault that he was bipolar,” Mike Deshears, a Flight 924 passenger who works for a vacation club in Orlando, said. “He was sick and she had convinced him to get on the plane.”
Frankly, I have to agree with most here, the marshalls did what they had to do (in a Hawaiin shirt no less), but that sentence broke my heart. The poor guy was probably stressed far beyond his limits and his wife, probably meaning well, talked him into getting on a plane.
People who are OCD shouldn't even get on a plane, let alone bi-polar.
Within a matter of seconds, every life involved is dramatically changed for the worse. A woman loses the love of her life right before Christmas, the marshalls deal with the doubts that will likely plague their thoughts (not that they were wrong, I think they did what they had to do, but we all have to live in those tight, airless places called our minds), and we all have our first post 9-11 demonstration of our recent loss of of innocence.
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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet
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