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ANNOUNCING “SILENT WINGS” - A TRIBUTE FLIGHT TO FALLEN FRIENDS The Airline Pilots Security Alliance is sponsoring, Silent Wings - A Tribute Flight to Fallen Friends, a poignant reminder that APSA’s mission to strengthen aviation security is fundamentally about honoring the memory of the very first victims of our nation’s war on terror. As Congress considers new legislation to finally make the FFDO program robust enough to serve as both deterrent and protection against terrorism, we will remind ourselves and others why we have taken up this cause. Over the next month, pilots and flight attendants of APSA will wear a special wristband inscribed with the name of one of the pilots or flight attendants lost on September 11, as they fly a personal two-hour flight in their memory. Our crews will dedicate their salary from the flight to making sure 9/11 never happens again. We are inviting you, our Captain’s Club members – the core of APSA, to join us in this tribute. The crews of the doomed airliners on 9/11 found themselves defenseless on the front lines of the war on terror. How many lives might have been saved, how many families spared unspeakable tragedy, if our friends and colleagues on September 11, 2001 had only had the means to defend themselves? Helpless and frightened though they were, we continue to hear stories of amazing courage and professionalism exhibited by our pilots and flight attendants on that fateful day. Please join APSA in remembering our colleagues, who took their last flight into a brilliant blue September sky, unwittingly transforming themselves from husbands, mothers, brothers, daughters and friends - into heroes. By flying a single flight, in tribute to our fallen friends, we will remind everyone of our true purpose: to ensure we are never again helpless against this kind of terror. “Silent Wings” embodies a solemn, unspoken pledge to our brave colleagues who took to the skies on September 11 – “You will not have died in vain.” Please help us keep that promise. Please join us! Enclosed, you’ll find a plastic bracelet on which you can write the name of a crewmember lost on September 11 from the list below (we’ve included an extra bracelet in case a coworker wants join you when you show him yours). 1. Sometime in the next 30 days, choose any two-hour flight from your schedule for your personal tribute flight, and a victim’s name to honor from the list below. Write their name on your bracelet.
2. Wear the bracelet the day you fly the flight in their memory. Tell your crew about it and encourage them to do the same. 3. Dedicate your salary for the flight, in the name of your fallen friend, to making our skies safe again, using the coupon below; or you can donate it by e-mail at www.secure-skies.org, and select the Silent Wings Tribute Flightbutton. 4. PLEASE, tell us about your tribute flight! Share the date, route, name of the victim you’re honoring, and your experience, either below, or in the comments box, when you donate through the Silent Wings Tribute button online. We’ll publish some of your stories with your names (if you don’t want your name published, tell us that, too, by checking the box below or its twin online). We won’t publish the amount you contribute unless you ask us to.
5. A little over a month from now, when we’ve all flown our personal tribute flights, participating crews will receive a permanent metal bracelet with the name of your honored friend inscribed, so, we truly never forget them. 6. We at APSA, and hopefully all of you, will fly our tribute flights over the next thirty days. Check www.secure-skies.org, for updates on the total number of tribute flights flown and the amount of money raised to fight to be able to defend our passengers against the next terror attack.If you don’t fly for a living, wear the bracelet and contribute two hours’ pay from whatever work you do. Then email us to tell us about it. Finally, if you’re not in a position to contribute at all, give two hours of your time to someone who needs it, in the name of someone who can’t any longer. There can be no greater gift than to give of your time or yourself to someone who needs you. The Silent Wings Tribute will be publicized in the press and will garner national attention. One journalist who heard about it wants to do a story, and we haven’t even started yet! APSA’s pilots and flight attendants will stand as an example of what it means to be professional aviators - and what it means to never forget.September 11th changed the world. Will you change it again?
Join us - in a tribute to Silent Wings. David Mackett, President Airline Pilots Security Alliance One last thing: If why we’re here is not as clear as it once was—if the passage of time has tapered your resolve—please take 10 minutes to visit Never Forget - A 9/11 Memorial in Pictures on our website. And Remember. This is why we’re here. Click Here To Print This Page On Your Printer ________________________________________________________________ Please mail this coupon with your gift, to:
**Unfortunately, donations are not deductible** I flew my Flight in Tribute to_______________________________(victim’s name), from ______ to _______, on ___________ (date). My gift of my salary for the flight, of $____________ is enclosed. My name and address (mandatory)________________________________ My comments about the experience: _________________________________ q I do not wish to be identified by name in a list of Tribute Crews (APSA will not publish the amount you contribute either way). You may also give your gift electronically via the “Silent Wings Tribute” button at www.secure-skies.org.
Fallen Friends American Airlines Flt 11: - Barbara Arestegui, 38, Marstons Mills, Mass., Flight Attendant American Airlines Flt 77:
United Airlines Flt 93:
United Airlines Flt 175: - Robert Fangman, 33, Claymont, Del., Flight Attendant * At the request of the families, some of the names have not been released. |
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