9/11 Shaped Their Lives, Even Though They’re Too Young to Remember It.

They have no memory of the buildings missing from the skyline or airports without security lines. But they have strong feelings about how to regard the legacy of the attacks.“There was no first time I heard about it. As a child it was simply a fact of the world I was in: 9/11 happened, and people like me are supposed to be sorry for it forever.”— Khalid El-Halabi, 24