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“Most people say, ‘Oh, you were part of 9/11.’ I just tell them, ‘You know what, 9/11 is part of me,’” said Tom Canavan. He was buried when the South Tower came down and dug his way free. He was one of the fewer than two dozen to survive the collapse. cnn.it/3hpWEEZ

Angela Mistrulli lost her dad on 9/11, then had to bury him multiple times over the past 20 years. He was a carpenter working at Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center’s North Tower. cnn.it/3E7z35E

September 11 was a wake-up call, said Sadia Sheikh, who moved to the US from Pakistan in 1978. When she turned on the TV that morning, what she saw hit her hard. At that moment, as a Muslim American, she said she knew her life would never be the same. cnn.it/3ns0IZc

“Everything was gray,” said Ivilina Popova. She and her twin sister were working on Wall Street when the second plane hit World Trade Center. “So we started running and we were holding hands because we thought- we were afraid that we would lose each other” cnn.it/3hjeIkf

Jeremy Booth was just coming into his finance job in San Francisco when the Twin Towers were struck. He saw the FDNY’s heroic response and knew that was his calling. After years of training, he's now a captain with Richmond Fire Department in California. cnn.it/3C2DZah