{"id":384,"date":"2011-09-12T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T12:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2011-09-12T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T12:24:32","slug":"nine-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/12\/nine-eleven\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/9-11-01-logo-300x285.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-385\" title=\"9-11-01-logo-300x285\" src=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/9-11-01-logo-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a>September 11, 2001.\u00a0 It\u2019s an inescapable marker of this generation.\u00a0 There will forever be before Nine Eleven, and after Nine Eleven.\u00a0 It\u2019s such a profound marker in time that it\u2019s hard to even remember what the world looked like before it.\u00a0 And we will all remember where we were on that fateful day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My story is rather unceremonious.\u00a0 I was working at the Millennium Bostonian Hotel near Faneuil Hall Marketplace in downtown Boston as a group sales manager.\u00a0 I had been at the hotel for three years and was now enjoying my own office space, albeit without a door.\u00a0 Our offices abutted a cigar bar whose ventilation system was conspicuously rigged to ours and which meant rather suffocating smells late in the day on Thursdays and Fridays.\u00a0 But this day was a crisp, clear, Tuesday and after our business review meeting, the day was operating on schedule.\u00a0 I remember when our banquets manager walked into the office as he always did, to pick up the mail and see which \u201cpop-up\u201d meetings he had to look forward to this week.\u00a0 But on this day he was also reporting some rather curious news \u2013 that a plane had hit the World Trade Center.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Curious indeed.\u00a0 Although I\u2019d grown up just an hour from New York, having lived in Boston for then seven years, my first thought was to Boston\u2019s World Trade Center.\u00a0 Odd, because although adjacent to Logan Airport, it was only two or three stories off the ground and I couldn\u2019t fathom how a plane leaving Logan could possibly crash into the low-rise complex.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t be long before I found myself grossly mistaken.\u00a0 A number of us convened in the Atrium Lounge around the biggest television sets the hotel had and watched as the second plane hit the Towers live.\u00a0 Most had already figured out they were witnessing perhaps the biggest news event of their lives, regardless of their age.\u00a0 Others were motionless.\u00a0 And a small group of staff were panicking and preparing to leave the hotel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We all knew we\u2019d be forever linked to those who were around us on that day.\u00a0 In the hotel, we were diligent to make sure the group\u2019s in house were safe and that we extended the stays of so many folks who would not be able to make flights home.\u00a0 As taller buildings were evacuated in Boston, the origination point for the terrorists\u2019 weapons, so many of us were about to have our worlds flipped on a dime.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It began as a mundane Tuesday, but when we left work that day, our jobs, our family life, and everything we did from that point on would forever be shaped by nineteen devils who used the travel industry to turn our lives upside down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 11, 2001.\u00a0 It\u2019s an inescapable marker of this generation.\u00a0 There will forever be before Nine Eleven, and after Nine Eleven.\u00a0 It\u2019s such a profound marker in time that it\u2019s hard to even remember what the world looked like before it.\u00a0 And we will all remember where we were on that fateful day.\u00a0 My story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - 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