Trevor's mother, Christine, was already in labour in a Pennsylvania hospital that day 14 years ago as the hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center shortly before 9 a.m. Today, on that tragic anniversary, an estimated 13,000 American teens will celebrate their 14th birthdays.Īmong them will be Trevor Naman, Hillary O'Neill, Anish Shrivastava and Jake Tomlinson, a few of the young faces of 9/11 Day, a global campaign that promotes charitable engagement and good deeds to memorialize the goodness that pulled the world together following the Sept. 11, 2001, represent the promising new lives that arrived at a time when humanity was gripped by heartache, anger and confusion following a series of co-ordinated attacks on the U.S. tragedy since Pearl Harbor, they were known as the "9/11 babies." But they're babies no more. To a world that greeted them 14 years ago amid the worst U.S. And some will flash a mouthful of braces when they grin. More than a few are learning to play guitar. Some have grown so tall their mothers now look up at them.
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