Don't wait for tragedy.
Say it today.
- Dianne Bullis Snyder
John Snyder drove fourteen hours through heavy rain to Chicago, Illinois to ask his high-school girlfriend Dianne Bullis, whose grip on his heart was something from which he had never been able to - and never wanted to - extricate himself to marry him. She said yes.
It was 1983.
Dianne Bullis Snyder and John Snyder married in 1984. In 1999, they moved with their then-school-age children, son Leland and daughter Blakeslee, into their dream home. Dianne, a flight attendant for American Airlines, relocated her base from New York to Boston. She constantly told John and their children that her #1 responsibility as a flight attendant was to ensure airplane safety.
Tuesday, September 11, 2001 was a work day for Dianne Bullis Snyder. She worked American Airlines Flight 11, which flew out of Logan Airport in Boston at 7:59 a.m. bound for Los Angeles. Less than one hour later, the murderous cowards who hijacked the plane and redirected it to New York City, flew it into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Life goes on for the families of those who were murdered on September 11, 2001. It goes on because it must. It has gone on for Blakeslee, Leland, and John Snyder. As they have soldiered on and continued to live their lives, the wife, the mother, the doer they loved remains fixed in their collective memory and forever present in their hearts.
-AK
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