Memorial Service Honors Airline Workers

Thousands of airline employees remembered their colleagues killed in the terrorist attacks, offering roses and doves as a tribute in Boston.

Twenty-two airline employees died when American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 were hijacked from Boston on Sept. 11 and crashed into the World Trade Center. Thousands of people are feared dead in the rubble.

“I don’t think we’ve had time to grieve,” said Diane Anthony, 45, who works in customer relations for Delta Air Lines. She and a co-worker took the day off, without pay, to attend the service.

The employees arrived by the busloads, wearing flag pins along with the usual wings on their lapels. A uniform from each lost crew member along with a rose lined the front of a stage at City Hall Plaza.