Personal Narrative: We Are A Post 9/11
I was standing in front of the North Pool of 9/11 Memorial with my friends. A blurry animation of a moment was forming in my memory. I was thrown back to Tehran, Iran, 2001 when I was an Afghan refugee escaping from a massacre by the hands of Taliban from being a Hazara - an ethnic minority. I saw the Twin Towers on a black and white TV. I saw how they collapsed and disappeared in the dust. The magnitude of the collapse took me back to July 2015. I was struggling to make a bigger picture of my identity in my mind.
The memorial threw me to Ted Wittenstein lecture in a summer program at Yale University two weeks ago. “We are a post-9/11 generation,” he said. Living in a world of 9/11 consequences, Afghanistan and terrorism were the core words
The memorial threw me to Ted Wittenstein lecture in a summer program at Yale University two weeks ago. “We are a post-9/11 generation,” he said. Living in a world of 9/11 consequences, Afghanistan and terrorism were the core words