Reclaiming the Sky: 9/11 and the Untold Story of the Men and Women Who Kept America Flying
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Reclaiming the Sky: 9/11 and the Untold Story of the Men and Women Who Kept America Flying
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780814437650 |
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| Publisher: | AMACOM |
| Publication date: | 08/03/2006 |
| Pages: | 226 |
| Product dimensions: | 4.71(w) x 7.17(h) x 1.04(d) |
| Age Range: | 15 Years |
About the Author
Tom Murphy has been an aviation industry trainer for more than twenty years. He is currently president of The Service Institute, whose Airport Ambassador Program offers training, incentives and promotion to help airport professionals meet and exceed the needs of air travelers. For the last few years, he has focused primarily on helping thousands of aviation professionals and their families in the wake of the September 11th attacks. He lives in Bellingham, Washington, and can be reached through this book's companion website, www.reclaimingthesky.com. The author's profits from all sales of Reclaiming the Sky will go to aviation-related charities, including the WINGS Foundation and the CAUSE Foundation which support American and United Airlines flight attendants.
Table of Contents
"Introduction: THE KENNIFER BENCH 1
Book One That Day 7
Chapter One THE GLORY DAYS 9
Chapter Two SUE 15
Chapter Three MARIANNE AND JESUS 23
Chapter Four JOHN 28
Chapter Five KATHRYN 37
Chapter Six TONI AND MICHELLE 42
Chapter Seven SUE 46
Chapter Eight TONI, ROSEMARY, DEBBIE, AND KATHYRN 56
Chapter Nine MARK AND STEVE 63
Chapter Ten TERRI 69
Book Two After That Day 75
Chapter Eleven WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE SORROW? 77
Chapter Twelve TOM 84
Chapter Thirteen SUE 88
Chapter Fourteen ONEKA, SUE, AND BERNIE 94
Chapter Fifteen THE DCA GATHERING PLACE 103
Chapter Sixteen THE FIRST STEP 109
Book Three CLUES TO RECOVERY 115
Chapter Seventeen KATHRYN AND CHIC 117
Chapter Eighteen JOHN, ANNE, AND MARIANNE 125
Chapter Nineteen ANNE 130
Chapter Twenty MARK, JOAN, AND STEVE 134
Chapter Twenty-One UNSUNG HEROES 142
Chapter Twenty-Two DIRT THERAPY 149
Chapter Twenty-Three DO WHAT YOU LOVE 155
Book Four WHY WE FLY 165
Chapter Twenty-Four THE SPACE 167
Chapter Twenty-Five CAPTAIN OBVIOUS 175
Chapter Twenty-Six LETTING GO 184
Chapter Twenty-Seven KENNIFER’S BENCH 192
Chapter Twenty-Eight RECLAIMINGTHESKY.COM 201
Epilogue 209"
What People are Saying About This
"I covered the awful World Trade Center attacks on 9/11 and haven't been on an airplane since. But after reading Tom Murphy's beautifully written, and powerfully told tale of the daily courage of those who keep America airborne I want to run for the boarding gate. Reclaiming the Sky is a compelling, economical and important book about those unsung men and women who have the right stuff in a dark time."
— Denis Hamill, New York Daily News columnist and author of Fork in the Road and Ten Spot
"The myth of our separateness in this life is pervasive, but it is never more a myth than when applied to the community of people who work in and around the great air transportation system of the United States. While 9/11 was a Pearl Harbor-class attack on our nation, it was an even more grievous attack on the aviation community, and the extreme pain and post traumatic stress radiating in all directions and affecting so many — friends, family, kindred workers, and those who we knew only by association — has vibrated silently, until now. Reclaiming the Sky is an important work of compassion and connectedness, a reaffirmation of the human spirit and the determination that kept an industry of great passion alive in its darkest hour."
— John J. Nance, Veteran Airline Captain for Alaska Airlines and Braniff Airlines, and NY Times bestselling author of many books, including Orbit, Pandor’s Clock, and Medusa’s Child
"A fitting tribute to the quiet heroes who helped get this country started again after it was so abruptly stopped on 9/11."
— Doug McCormick, former President of iVillage and Lifetime Television
"Reclaiming the Sky is filled with good stories I had not heard and things I did not know. It should be required reading for anyone who is serious about defending America."
— John Westermann, ex-cop, author of Exit Wounds"