Hiding under a bed in their hotel room, Luis Allen and his family could hear the explosions of grenades as they rocked the historic Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel.
Sara K. Clarke | Sentinel Staff Writer
December 1, 2008
Hiding under a bed in their hotel room, Luis Allen and his family could hear the explosions of grenades as they rocked the historic Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel.
They could smell the smoke from fires. They listened as a woman pleaded with someone before shots rang out.
The Maitland family recalled the terror of their vacation Sunday from the home they thought they might never see again.
Luis Allen, a psychiatrist, and his wife, Maxine Williams Allen, were on their last night of vacation in Mumbai, India, with their sons, Brandon, 13, and Jonathan, 10.
They encouraged their children to keep the faith. The children weren't scared; the youngest often slept. But when Maxine put the phone number of their aunt in her youngest son's pocket -- just in case she and her husband didn't survive -- Jonathan grew upset.
"He said: 'I don't want to go to your funeral,' " Maxine recalled.
Then the older boy said: "We live together; we're all going to die together."
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