Barbara retired from the airlines in 2003 after a 39 year career. In the last 18 months, she has researched the events surrounding the hijackings. She has written over a dozen articles on events surrounding the hijackings with her passion being to give the public a better appreciation of what these crews did while they were in flight. 

To celebrate the memory of the lost crewmembers on the four 9/11 flights, she has designed a wing shaped pin that reads "Our 33." The pins come with a poem she wrote inspired by their acts of bravery. With each pin purchased, Barbara donates the proceeds to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. 

"I want the crews that died on 9/11 to be acknowledged as heroes," says Barbara. "Crews on the first two airplanes told their companies about the killing of the pilots, the stabbing of the flight attendants and of mace gas being sprayed in the cabins.  

These were things that had never happened before, and as the information came in from each of the four flights, it confirmed that our country was under a major attack. The crews worked to try to save their passengers and when that was not possible, they passed on information in the hopes of saving others from the same fate."