This is Ruth Clifford McCourt and her friend Paige Farley Hackel (left). Paige died on Flight 11.
I knew both of these women. Ruth had been my wife's boss in the 1980s, and Paige was a friend of my wife's family.
I can't say I knew either of those women well, although I had seen them both socially many times. And I never met Ruth's little girl Juliana, who was a year older than my own daughter.
But even now, hardly a day goes by that I don't think of them and their horrible fate. Especially that beautiful little girl.
I just thought they should be acknowledged here on the anniversay of their deaths.
Here it is: