60 Minutes 9/11 Archive: The Children of September

A few weeks after the attacks, Scott Pelley spoke with children who lost a parent on September 11th and talked about how suddenly their lives had changed.
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[@chloerodgers692]

“if they met him, they would change their mind”. such a simple statement and so true.

[@southernsass2937]

So very 💔

[@southernsass2937]

Every one of them 😥

[@mattmayo3539]

The resiliency and the management of grief of the adolescent mind is truly awe inspiring.

[@soulman4292]

This is heartbreaking. I’m holding back tears watching this video. I hope all of these people who are now adults are living good lives. The pain of losing a parent so young, is so unbearable.

[@EmmaSofiaQuist]

Zachary Zion (son of Cantor Fitzgerald Vice President Charles Zion), who wanted to follow his dad, did in fact do so. I found his Linkedin and he worked for Cantor from 2008-2010 before starting his own investment mangement company in 2009.

[@djcity1]

Brandon Regan followed his fathers footsteps and became a firefighter with FDNY

[@cindyinnew]

Gutted while watching this but also filled with Hope listening to these young people express such profound love.

[@aprilchamberlain1677]

It breaks my heart to see these kids growing up without their fathers. It's extremely hard when you lose a parent at a young age. I was agreeing with them since I know it's hard from personal experience, I didn't lose mine on 9/11 but it's rough when you lose a parent as a child. It amazes me how kids can handle it so much better than adults do. The one young lady was talking about what her father will miss and she's spot on, that is the hardest part of losing a parent. I wish all of the kids from that horrific day well in life.

[@morenofranco9235]

I have no words... Thank you, 60 Minutes.... I just have no words.

[@SRR0247]

Such incredible kids. ...gutwrenching 😭😭 I will never get over the massive senseless loss of that day 💔💔💔

[@MakeupMobster]

Thank you for posting all of the 9/11 videos. The youngest Spinelli daughter is just precious. The son of Duane Williams said it best, like the devil looked in his mind and picked his worst fear. That’s how I felt when I lost my mom to cancer. What a big responsibility for these young people to have to take on at such a young age but I can relate. I was relatively young when my dad passed 25. I felt a very strong sense of responsibility to look after my mom. Picking up the pieces is not easy and I can’t imagine having been a teen and losing a parent like this. Thanks for giving these young kids a voice.

[@srs3572]

You've experienced a lot of loss. *hugs*

[@pattyandersen5516]

My heart breaks for all of them. My son was in the military on that day and called me I’m Alaska (4 hours behind NY time). It was around 6 am. He said turn on the TV. We’re getting shipped out and can’t contact you for a few months. I knew our world changed. These children and families suffered so. Along with survivors.

[@kkoup35]

I’m really glad they are rebroadcasting these but it would be interesting to get an update on the kids. How many became firefighters? How many joined the police force or the military. These kids all came from high-achieving homes - it would be interesting to see where they got in life.

[@X3AmySarah]

I thought they were going to do an update too. I hope they’re all doing good

[@rickyspanish9002]

Brendan Regan became a firefighter, just like his father.

[@kirstenpeterson8093]

I still have recordings of my dad of different conversations with him so I get to hear his voice all the time when ever the time . He will have been gone 2 years in October….

[@ttrestle]

I cried pretty hard at this

[@jarrettgardner0628]

Me as well...I'm 41 now .. Still a kid at heart...listening to children express grief so eloquently and mature... This literally killed me ... Took me back to being a child again..even the most coldest hearts can empathize with a children's grief ... I can't even fathom what the world would dreamlike if I lost even one of my parents ... Makes me realize I am truly lucky...and to never take that for granted ever!! Now my mind dwells on all the children of Afghanistan that didn't manage to get out... I understand why parents were literally giving their children to foreign American soldiers to have a chance to be placed on the aircraft out of Kabul...20 heard later and children all around the world are still grieving and affected tremendously and horrendously from the fallout of 9/11... When will humankind ever truly wake up?!

[@wendywozniak6360]

What amazing children. So heartbreaking 😢

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

Their parents' would be so proud of these great kid's.

[@cuellar4500]

Heart breaking 💔

[@marvinhagler4721]

EXACTLY

[@nicolesaylor4027]

We can add the kids who's parents survived but came out so tramatized they were also gone. It's so sad and senseless m

[@matthew-jy5jp]

Never Forget what the USA lost on 911

[@Crayolapup]

I remember living in the Bronx New York & being in Kindergarten. I think I skipped School that day. Maybe we got released early and I could just walk back to the apartment from the school. The apartment was one block away. My older brother was in an Art School in downtown NY. My Mother had to walk all the way from the Bronx down to Downtown NYC to pick up my brother. Then walk back up with him. All of the busses and trains weren’t running.

[@angeo3830]

I wish they would also show the stories of the children who died in the crashes of 9/11 …every part of 9/11 is so sad 😞

[@jrpacer6355]

It's been 20 years so these kids are much older

[@jaysonpadron6425]

Yeah early to mid and late thirties

[@lhillie6675]

Am now 65 and was working as a preschool teacher in one of the schools in NY.It was one of the worst experience I have had, every one is scaried young and old are crying.God bless America.

[@soulfly3438]

i couldnt imagine how you could approach that with the kids. that a building there parents may work at was attacked.

[@williameichner7177]

The day our government of the United States catastrophically failed us all. Forgive me it could have been prevented.

[@danni1993]

How could have been prevented...just curious.

[@benrtinez36]

Remembering those lost to all the nonsense.

[@perrylowe]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢. Still crying for these children💜💙22 years !!

[@Erishkigall]

So Sad...I was in 10th Grade

[@joselingcastro8538]

The fact that they are all adults now is…wow.

[@zeekkeez3488]

The potential for evil exists in all men. Some just have a really low boiling point for that evil. The acts of September 11 that those horrible hijackers did will never be forgotten. If whatever they did that day really got them their ticket into their glorious afterlife they go on about all the time, then clearly I'm never going to that afterlife, because unfortunately, unlike the hijackers, I am not a dumpster fire of a human.

[@jwsf941]

How are things going for them 20 years later?

[@T.K.KIRKLAND.]

Covid killed some of them

[@carolynpointer2126]

Our family lost a dear relative. His two children were very small. They are grown and nearly grown now. They are beautiful people.

[@erwinrogers9470]

So sad/God Bless❤😭

[@donnaryland9976]

The thing that really upsets me is innocent people that didn’t have a damn thing to do with the politician’s decisions with foreign countries died. Why do the innocent people pay the price of others bad decisions! Here we are 20 years later & Biden in office & to me it’s about to be a repeat with Afghanistan! When will enough be enough. These precious children that lost a parent are left with scars that will NEVE fade. Wives that lost their soul mates & are left to raise their children . My heart breaks for the families .

[@kellyscott7977]

Their fathers must be so proud as they look down on their kids from heaven❤

[@TeamAldean]

Omg this breaks me 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@jws1948ja]

my heart breaks all these years later.

[@nataliev.149]

😔😔

[@Gabster1990]

The teen boy calling his dad's cellphone got to me. :( I wonder if they ever found the cell phone?

[@dhl-96]

I do hope so but there is a good chance that unless they found his body, his cellphone would have been crushed and would never have been found or at the very least, it would have been wrecked by the forces and would no longer work

[@New-York-Guy-90.]

Nearly Almost Twenty Years Ago My Dad went to New York City on a business trip a week after 9/11 and he saw that they still had the area shutdown and they were searching for bodies

[@soulfly3438]

they were searching for bodies 2 and 3 months after the day.

[@srs3572]

These children had to grow up in an instant. 😢

[@lorilori3]

🙏 God Bless the children and families of 9/11. I never forget because they cannot.

[@kirstenpeterson8093]

Or Mom too…

[@adriennem3724]

My God these poor families

[@kristoferkoessel4354]

Poor kids

[@CH-od8ni]

They interviewed these children a few days after their father‘s funerals? That’s disgusting.

[@SelfEducationMethodologySEM]

👋

[@DeAngeloStevens]

Tell that to Sherry Birkin from Resident Evil been there done that dating back to 1998.

[@Тхривед]

2:16 Bruh💀

[@offset5549]

Biden will be making a name for himself this week...

[@JacobC479]

Well there was only one living former president that didn't go to the memorial ceremony. I think that speaks volumes. Politics should have nothing to do with it.

[@MaryjaneLove]

&&&&& first black family of 9/11 . . wasn't black folks working in the twin towers at all nevertheless makes uu teary eyes watching this . . . what's the update on the 9/11 kids and families . . . 😢💔🙏💯

[@xs5783]

Lala Bata Ab Chal..Chill Chill..8|

[@muskduh]

It was an inside joke by David Rockefeller

[@RealChrisHatch]

reported and banned bud

[@HugoStiglitz1000]

Dancing Israelis. Say it with me, Dancing Israelis

[@tobiaslooser]

The building was demoed, and a plane just happened to run into the building!

[@fashiondiva6972]

The young man who left his Dad voicemails every night, oh my soul he broke me

[@cassie6583]

Wow. Thanks for the good cry. These people are true heroes.