Message-ID: <17817047.1075841424871.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:13:19 -0700 (PDT) From: phillip.platter@enron.com To: chris.mallory@enron.com Subject: FW: Home Finally!! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: Platter, Phillip X-To: Mallory, Chris X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ExMerge - Platter, Phillip\Sent Items X-Origin: PLATTER-P X-FileName: phillip platter 6-26-02.PST -----Original Message----- From: =09Miller, Jeffrey =20 Sent:=09Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:57 AM To:=09Gilbert, Gerald; Forney, John M.; Day, Smith L.; Platter, Phillip Subject:=09FW: Home Finally!! -----Original Message----- From: =09"Jeffrey Miller" @ENRON [mailto:IMCEANOT= ES-+22Jeffrey+20Miller+22+20+3Cjmiller79+40houston+2Err+2Ecom+3E+40ENRON@EN= RON.com]=20 Sent:=09Wednesday, September 19, 2001 8:18 PM To:=09Miller, Jeffrey Subject:=09Fw: Home Finally!! =20 ----- Original Message ----- =20 From: vzimmer2 =20 To: jeffrey miller ; cathy ; carden ; yida07@aol.com ; sheryl =20 Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 7:41 PM Subject: Fw: Home Finally!! =20 ----- Original Message ----- =20 From: janice mason =20 To: deborah.c.ulrich@exxonmobil.com ; dlyne@swbell.net ; frogged5@yahoo.c= om ; hilily88@houston.rr.com ; labney@wt.net ; mgallo@wt.net ; Nu978@a= ol.com ; roachette@aol.com ; sfbartley@yahoo.com ; vzimmer2@home.com = =20 Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 10:15 AM Subject: FW: Home Finally!! =20 Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 10:40 PM Subject: Home finally!=20 =20 I just wanted to drop you all a note and let you know that I arrived safe= and sound into Dulles Airport tonight at about 6:00. It was an interesting= flight. The airport in Denver was almost spooky, it was so empty and quie= t. No one was in line for the security check point when I got there so tha= t went fairly quickly, just x-ray of my bags and then a chemical test to b= e sure nothing explosive was on them. Then I waited 2 1/2 hours to board t= he plane. What happened after we boarded was interesting and thought I wou= ld share it with you. The pilot/captain came on the loudspeaker after the= doors were closed. His speech went like this: First I want to thank you = for being brave enough to fly today. The doors are now closed and we have = no help from the outside for any problems that might occur inside this pla= ne. As you could tell when you checked in, the government has made some ch= anges to increase security in the airports. They have not, however, made a= ny rules about what happens after those doors close. Until they do that, w= e have made our own rules and I want to share them with you. Once those doo= rs close, we only have each other. The security has taken care of a threat= like guns with all of the increased scanning, etc. Then we have the suppo= sed bomb. If you have a bomb, there is no need to tell me about it, or any= one else on this plane; you are already in control. So, for this flight, t= here are no bombs that exist on this plane. Now, the threats that are left= are things like plastics, wood, knives, and other weapons that can be mad= e or things like that which can be used as weapons. Here is our plan and o= ur rules. If someone or several people stand up and say they are hijacking= this plane, I want you all to stand up together. Then take whatever you h= ave available to you and throw it at them. Throw ! it at their faces and h= eads so they will have to raise their hands to protect themselves. The ver= y best protection you have against knives are the pillows and blankets. Wh= oever is close to these people should then try to get a blanket over their= head--then they won't be able to see. Once that is done, get them down an= d keep them there. Do not let them up. I will then land the plane at the c= losest place and we WILL take care of them. After all, there are usually o= nly a few of them and we are 200+ strong! We will not allow them to take ov= er this plane. I find it interesting that the US Constitution begins with = the words "We, the people"--that's who we are, THE people and we will not = be defeated. With that, the passengers on the plane all began to applaud,= people had tears in their eyes, and we began the trip toward the runway. = The flight attendant then began the safety speech. One of the things she s= aid is that we are all so busy and live our lives at such a fast pace. She= asked that everyone turn to their neighbors on either side and introduce = themselves, tell each other something about your families and children, sh= ow pictures, whatever. She said "for today, we consider you family. We wil= l treat you as such and ask that you do the same with us." Throughout the = flight we learned that for the crew, this was their first flight since Tue= sday's tragedies. It was a day that everyone leaned on each other and toge= ther everyone was stronger than any one person alone. It was quite an expe= rience. You can imagine the feeling when that plane touched down at Dulles= and we heard "welcome to Washington Dulles Airport, where the local time = is 5:40". Again, the cabin was filled with applause. It has been a very l= ong day and one that I am glad is over. I have been constantly reminded th= is day of the ar! ticle in JAAMT that Barbara Williams recently wrote where= she referenced the tornados in Oklahoma and said something like, "Do we g= et mad and shake our fists at God in anger? No, we go on and conquer our f= ears and continue our lives." It is my hope that is what we do now. Last n= ight I saw a program with college students where one of them said that at = their campus there are no more hyphenated titles, i.e., African-American, = etc., everyone is just an American. No one will ever be able to take that = pride away from us.=20 Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com