Vaughn Allex, ticket agent, Washington Dulles International Airport, Virginia: I had this wild thing in my mind that everything that happened on September 11th was my fault, personally. That I could have changed it. I felt there was no place for me in the world. There were all these support groups, and I didn’t belong there because how do I sit in a room with people that are mourning and crying and they’re like, “What’s your role in this whole thing?” “Well, I checked in a couple of the hijackers and made sure they got on the flight.”
