Wendell Wettstein and his wife Patricia dragged their luggage to Logan International Airport yesterday to complete the last leg of a month-long cross-country trip from their home in California to a Grand Cayman island cruise.

The middle-aged couple arrived at the airport wearing matching T-shirts emblazoned with an American flag and the red, white and blue words, “United States of America: Land of The Free.”

Logan Airport’s Terminal B, where the Wettsteins patiently wait to check their bags, was the departure site for the two passenger jets that were hijacked by terrorists and used to destroy the World Trade Center’s twin towers Tuesday.

Despite the concerns of family members back in the Southern California desert, the Wettsteins say they are determined not to allow fear to change their plans.

“We shouldn’t allow these guys to paralyze the country,” Wendell says. “If the whole country shuts down, well, then they’ve won.”

As the couple packed their bags yesterday morning, Patricia turned to her husband to ask if they had forgotten anything. Wendell’s response? “I think we’ve lost our innocence.”

After grounding all flights for four days following Tuesday’s horrific terrorist attacks, Logan Airport reopened Saturday at 5 a.m. to armed black-clad state troopers, bomb-sniffing dogs, no curbside check-ins, no knives in airport restaurants and passengers like the Wettsteins who tried to ignore concern with a quiet, dogged determination to continue on with their lives.

But the skies over Logan still remained relatively quiet this weekend. The airport flew just under 50 percent of its normal operations yesterday, Mass. Port Authority officials said.