Logan ceremony honors 9/11 victims

BOSTON -- It’s been a decade, but family and friends of the victims of 9/11 say ceremonies and memorials like the one at Logan airport make the day seem much more than a fading memory.

“It’s been ten years so things have gotten a lot better,” Lynn Greene, who lost a family member in the attacks, said. “But then as soon as you step into this box it’s like you’re back there again on that day.”

“It's still very emotional, it’s still very raw, it still feels like it’s yesterday,” American Airlines pilot Captain Berk Bennett said. “And there isn’t a day that goes by that we don’t think about them.”

Logan Airport remembered the passengers, crews and families of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Flight 175 in a ceremony Friday.

The flights that originated from Boston flew into the Twin Towers, but Massport insists Logan was not targeted because of weak security.

Virginia Buckingham was the director of Massport at the time of the attacks.

“I certainly haven't put it behind me as none of us here ever will,” she said. “It’s with me every day. The pain that we couldn’t stop it - we would have if we could have - and the pain that all those families went through. It changed all of us; it changed me forever.”

Time has also changed Peggy Ogonowski. Her husband John was the Captain of the doomed American Airlines Flight 11.

“I think it's so important to go on with a full heart because we got to live our lives, they didn’t,” she said. “So live our lives the best we can and go forward,” she said.

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