This is my tribute to 9-11 victims and their families, specifically the family and friends of Berinthina Berenson Perkins. Berthina was on Flight 11, seat 19A when it crashed in to the World Trade Center five years ago today.
I personally remember, as everyone old enough to does, where I was on 9-11-01 and how I was feeling. Berinthina would be 58 this year. Maybe she would be enjoy grand kids or friends tonight. I wonder where she was flying to?
Born Berinthia Berenson in New York in 1948, Berenson was a noted photographer and actress and was the sister of model-turned-actress Marisa Berenson (of "Barry Lyndon" fame). Berenson met her husband, actor and star of Alfred Hitchcock's original version of Psycho (1960), Anthony Perkins on the set of his film Play It As It Lays (1972) and married him in 1973. The couple raised 2 sons and remained married until Perkins' death of an AIDS-related illness in 1992. Listed on the flight manifest as Berinthia Perkins, Berenson was killed aboard the hijacked American Airlines Flight 11, which was deliberately crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001 and was one of over 3,000 souls lost on this date. She was survived by her adult sons, artist Elvis Perkins and actor Oz Perkins.
Life is short and we're promised nothing. I hope that Berinthia's friends and family are blessed by this tribute to her.
