[Batfish]

I work at The TJX Companies, Inc. in Framingham, MA. We had 7 employees on American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston, MA to San Fransisco, CA. American Airlines Flight 11 was the plane that hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

My wife and I were on our 4th wedding anniversary, vacationing in Bar Harbor, ME at the Bar Harbor Inn. We had just left the Reading Room Restaurant after eating breakfast, and the hotel lobby television had CNN playing the smoking buildings. At that time I didn't know my company had employees in that plane.
We spent the rest of the week trying to enjoy our vacation. We had rented a convertible and it was the best weather we had seen in 5 years of vacationing there during that week, but we concentrated on news radio the entire time we drove around, barely even paying attention to our surroundings. It was during our drive home that we first heard reports that some of the terrorists had possibly used Portland International Airport. We could see that airport from the highway.

TJX built a memorial garden to the 7 employees and has kept it maintained meticulously. I walk by it every morning when I go into work and every evening when I leave.

I won't be forgetting...