Anngelle Wood
Sep 11, 2021
Updated: Jun 5, 2023
A surprise episode! It was unplanned. The show remains on hiatus.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. It weighs on my mind. I have my own related trauma from that day and the days that followed as a young Boston radio DJ trying to navigate this horror where listeners called begging me for answers and to say things over the air. I was not prepared.
The two planes that hit the Twin Towers came from Boston full of local people who wouldn't make it back home. It affected so many families here. We are very sensitive to this. I know I am.
I have been thinking a lot about that day and wanted to talk about it. Thanks for listening.
Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles was full of people from Massachusetts. Of the 92 people total on board, 8 of the 11 member crew and 47 of the passengers on board were from Massachusetts.
List of all passengers on board Flight 11 - Boston Globe archives
List of all passengers on board Flight 175 - Boston Globe archives
Crew members from Flight 11
Barbara Jean Arestegui, 38, Marstons Mills, Massachusetts
Karen A. Martin, 40, Danvers
Kathleen Nicosia, 54, Winthrop
John Ogonowski, 52, Dracut
Betty Ong, 45, Andover
Jean Roger, 24, Longmeadow
Dianne Snyder, 42, Westport
Madeline Sweeney, 35, Acton
Passengers from Massachusetts
Anna Williams Allison, 48, Stoneham
Myra Aronson, 52, Charlestown
Christine Barbuto, 32, Brookline
Kelly Ann Booms, 24, Brookline
Neilie Anne Heffernan Casey, 32, Wellesley
Jeffrey Coombs, 42, Abington
Tara Creamer, 30, Worcester
Patrick Currivan, 52, Winchester
David DiMeglio, 22, Wakefield
Donald Americo DiTullio, 49, Peabody
Paige Farley-Hackel, 46, Newton
Alex Filipov, 70, Concord
Paul Friedman, 45, Belmont
Karleton D.B. Fyfe, 31, Brookline
Peter Gay, 54, Tewksbury
Linda George, 27, Westboro
Lisa Fenn Gordenstein, 41, Needham
Peter Hashem, 40, Tewksbury
Robert Hayes, 37, Amesbury
Edward (Ted) R. Hennessy, 35, Belmont
Cora Hidalgo Holland, 52, Sudbury
Nicholas Humber, 60, of Newton
John Charles Jenkins, 45, Cambridge
Charles Edward Jones, 48, Bedford
Robin Kaplan, 33, Westboro
Judy Larocque, 50, Framingham
Natalie Janis Lasden, 46, Peabody
Daniel C. Lewin, 31, Charlestown
Susan A. MacKay, 44, Westford
Christopher D. Mello, 25, Boston
Antonio Jesus Montoya Valdes, 46, East Boston
Carlos Alberto Montoya, 36, Belmont
Laura Lee Morabito, 34, Framingham
Mildred Rose Naiman, 81, Andover
Jane M. Orth, 49, Haverhill
Sonia Morales Puopolo, 58, of Dover
David E. Retik, 33, Needham
Philip M. Rosenzweig, 47, Acton
Richard Ross, 58, Newton
Jessica Sachs, 22, Billerica
Rahma Salie, 28, Boston
Heather Lee Smith, 30, Boston
Michael Theodoridis, 32, Boston
James Trentini, 65, Everett
Mary Trentini, 67, Everett
Kenneth Waldie, 46, Methuen
Christopher Zarba, 47, Hopkinton
Flight 175 Boston to Los Angeles
26 passengers were from Massachusetts
Garnet Edward (Ace) Bailey, 54, Lynnfield, Mass
Mark Bavis, 31, West Newton
Graham Andrew Berkeley, 37, Boston
John Brett Cahill, 56, Wellesley
Christoffer Carstanjen, 33, Turner Falls
John (Jay) J. Corcoran, 43, Norwell
Lynn Catherine Goodchild, 25, Attleboro
Peter Morgan Goodrich, 33, Sudbury
Douglas A. Gowell, 52, Methuen
The Rev. Francis E. Grogan, 76, of Easton
Peter Hanson, 32, Groton
Sue Kim Hanson, 35, Groton
Christine Lee Hanson, 2, Groton
Eric Samadikan Hartono, 20, Boston
James E. Hayden, 47, Westford
Herbert W. Homer, 48, Milford
Robert Adrien Jalbert, 61, Swampscott
Ralph Francis Kershaw, 52, Manchester-by-the-Sea
Brian Kinney, 29, Lowell
Marianne MacFarlane, 34, Revere
Patrick Quigley, 40, of Wellesley
Frederick Charles Rimmele, 32, Marblehead
Jesus Sanchez, 45, Hudson
Jane Louise Simpkin, 36, Wayland
Brian D. Sweeney, 38, Barnstable
William M. Weems, 46, Marblehead