9/11 Was the End of My Childhood

I was 12 that Tuesday; one in ten American adults today was born after it. Between now and Friday’s anniversary, I will name the Catholic heroes of 9/11 and tell you where Robert Prevost was when the towers fell.

Pope Francis stands before Spencer Finch’s wall of 2,983 blue tiles, one for each victim of the 2001 and 1993 attacks, inside the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York on Sept. 25, 2015. The line above him is Virgil’s: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.”

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