Kevin Tuerff (Courtesy: Kevin Tuerff)On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Kevin Tuerff was returning from a Paris vacation with his then-partner, also Kevin, to their home in Austin, with a layover in New York. Tuerff’s plane switched directions and the flight map on the screens in front of their seats showed they were headed to the North Pole. Really, his plane, and 37 other diverted flights, were headed to a small Canadian town in Newfoundland. But the inconvenience, the discomfort, the fear is not what Tuerff remembers from those harrowing few days. Waiting on the tarmac, at that point for seven hours, with news coming in drips, and no idea when he was getting off the plane, Tuerff started writing notes on the menu.

Source: Washington Post September 11, 2016 22:13 UTC