There were 13,238 babies born in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. They’re turning 20 this week.
NEW YORK — Or Tom Brady wasn’t a starting quarterback in the NFL.
“Over the past decade, there’ve been, like, so many school shootings,” said Lilly Bestoso, one of the 9/11 “babies” who took part in the project. “So that would be a worry of mine. Terrorism, not so much.”Anish Shrivastava in Troy, N.Y. Anish was born on Sept. 11, 2001, in Princeton, N.J., and found out at an early age the significance of his birthdate.
“He didn’t go to work because I was being born,” Anish said in a recent interview. “But otherwise he would have been there.”“That’s when I started to understand, ‘OK, maybe being born on this date might actually mean something to people,’” he recalled. “I think that’s really cool,” he said. “It’s giving them a meal in their hands, it’s giving them some material thing that improves their life. We can help them do that in a very direct way, and it’s really exciting for me.”
“Seeing the names on the walls and all the pictures and the people and their loved ones lost, I kind of started to realize what had happened,” she said. “And I was like, ‘Wow, that’s my birthday. That’s the day that I was born.’" As she’s grown older, Lilly, now a communications major at the University of Rhode Island, has noticed people react a bit differently when she has to reveal her birthday in public.
Hattie is a sophomore at West Virginia University, where she’s pursuing a degree in animal science. She hopes to become a veterinarian — something she says she’s wanted to do “since I could walk.”“I’ve always celebrated my birthday,” she said. “Though it’s a really big mourning day for others, it’s still — you can look at it as hope.”Jayna Hanes’s father is a firefighter. He was at the fire station in Vancouver, Wash., on Sept.
As she’s gotten older, Jayne has tried to give back around her birthday, volunteering with various groups and charities.
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