Read this article this morning from CNN. From records, he was the first death of 9/11. They guy spent the night before debating who would be laid off. The next morning he is on a flight to LA.
I work in the staffing industry and there are many days I walk out pulling my hair because of contractors or just the job itself. I read this article and it brings it into perspective.
"“Nevertheless, things were particularly grim on September 10, 2001. Leighton remembers a session stretching late into the evening in which the executives had to decide whom to lay off, including some friends and colleagues who had been with them almost since the beginning. The next morning Lewin had to fly from Boston to Los Angeles.
"He probably barely got an hour of sleep before getting on board the next morning," Leighton (his wife) remembers.
Lewin was sitting in seat 9B. With his Israeli military training and understanding of Arabic, he may have figured out what was going on, perhaps even tried to stop it. According to flight attendants' calls relayed to authorities on the ground, the first passenger to be killed was seated in 9B. He was stabbed to death.”
I read the article and it made me sit back and take a few moments. Never forget.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/09/tech/innovation/danny-lewin-9-11-akamai/index.html?hpt=hp_t1