Covenant Betrayed:
Revelations of the Sixties,
the Best of Time; the Worst of Time

BY
Mark Dahl

IN MEMORY
9/11/01
American Flight 77 Washington to LA
Zoe Falkenberg,, 8, University Park, Md.
Dana Falkenberg, 3, University Park, Md.

(Picture in Newsweek issue 9/24/2001)

   I can still see them getting out of their car at the airport, putting on their matching Pooh backpacks. Dana helping Zoe, who cries in frustration because she got the straps mixed up and her parents are anxious to move on to catch the flight. I see them waiting in line and boarding, and I'm sure their eyes twinkled when they crossed with their tormentors. And I'm sure they noticed Dana's and Zoe's infectious smiles and giggles. Did they have second thoughts? Perhaps a few but we will never know. We do know that some of them perhaps were equally betrayed and were unaware of their own fate. They too, caught up in the plot of the EVIL ONE, a plot more dastardly than Iago's, the greatest villain in literature. And on that fateful trip, I'm sure Dana was there for Zoa, calming her terrors, reassuring her that's it's just a bad dream about booglemen. She, herself, standing brave for Zoe, but at the end gave in to her own fears, sought the comfort of her parents.