Twenty years on, Benjamin Oreskes knows the Sept. 11 attacks profoundly shaped him, but he's still sorting out how.
Benjamin OreskesWhen not pitching in on this newsletter, I normally cover homelessness and housing for this paper. But over the last few weeks, I spent some time back in my hometown of New York City thinking about a different tragedy.“Hours later, I finally made it home to the Upper West Side, where my little night owl, Louisa, opened the door. ‘Mommy, Mommy, your hair is gray!’ she screeched. Ben was sound asleep, but as promised, I woke him. Fear welled up in his face.
The gray in my mom’s hair was ash and dust from the twin towers — material we now know to have been toxic. The reality is, I remember very little about that cloudless Tuesday 20 years ago. I’m not sure if I remember or if my mom later told me, but that night, when she got home, I thought she was a ghost because of the dust that coated her clothes and hair.
I felt fear. I know that. But what else? Was I confused? Distressed? Here’s where my parents’ recollections replace my own. I am part of the tail end of the millennial generation and belong to a select cohort who lived within a few miles of the two buildings that were once the tallest in the world. Twenty years on, I know the Sept. 11 attacks profoundly shaped me but I’m still sorting out how. And in this, I’m joined by many of my peers, who were children then and can see now, with the clarity of hindsight, that the attack by Al Qaeda changed the trajectory of their lives.
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