9/11

Six extraordinary people reflect on how their worlds changed

Over the past two decades, Nobrega has had a unique, occasionally jarring, view of a world in flux. Afghanistan was merely the first stage.

When the Taliban fell after 9/11, Afghanistan entered a period of hope. For Essazada, it feels as if the Taliban have won again.

Brooks-Jones started a fund for students in a small town in Newfoundland after a local Lions Club looked out for her—leading to lifelong friendships and Broadway

Basnicki sees his father Ken, whom he lost at 16 on 9/11, reflected in his life to this day: ’Apparently, everything I do is similar to him,’ he says

’We are as much a part of the fabric of this community as anyone. But people didn’t know this. So post-9/11, we opened our doors,’ says Hassan, the then-chairman of the London Muslim Mosque.

He was on the 84th floor of the south tower. While 9/11 does not haunt Clark to the degree it does so many others, he lives in its shadow.

’There’s no memorial to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died because of how the memory of 9/11 was used’

With no more unknown victims of mass deaths, there’s now a struggle between personal grief and public memorials

Photojournalist Larry Towell’s goal? ‘I try to become the people I photograph.’