[List] Remembering 9/11/01: Carl Max Hammond

[Cecil Stokes]

Remembering all losses on 9/11/01 but particularly remembering a member 
of the TC HD family: Dr. Carl Max Hammond, son of Carl Hammond (TC#4277) 
who had served the Huntsville Division as Manager of Contracts.


  Carl Max Hammond

Carl Max Hammond
United Flight 175 
<http://www.legacy.com/sept11/SearchResult.aspx?location=UA175>


    Used-Car Tinkerer

Carl Hammond and Carl Max Hammond Jr. had some of their best father-son 
talks while tinkering with the innards of a Mustang.

"I bought one used back in '67," said the elder Mr. Hammond. It needed 
parts, so I bought another — which needed parts. I bought another and 
another and another."

Max, who was 12, liked to tinker, too. "It wasn't long," said his 
father, "before he was the leader and I was the follower."

Max Hammond was also a leader in other ways. In seventh grade, he got 
into trouble for contradicting his teacher.

"She said a supernova was the birth of a star," Mr. Hammond recalled. 
"He said it was the death of a star. He wouldn't back off his position. 
He accused the teacher of getting her science from Reader's Digest. He 
got his from Scientific American."

Max earned a doctorate in physics and got a job doing top-secret 
research. But he still preferred talking about books or cars. "He wrote 
poetry," his father said. "He loved working with his hands." He was 
taking a welding course and learning to weld and form aluminum and thin 
metal."

Less than a year before boarding Flight 175, Max Hammond, who was 37, 
moved to Derry, N.H. He bought a little house with a big garage for the 
Mustangs. "The '65 Mustang fastback — a shell of a body — was first on 
the list," Mr. Hammond said. "Next was the Mustang convertible. He liked 
to learn about them and tinker with them. But he never did finish one."

Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on April 28, 2002.

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