These 9/11 children promise to never forget


In memory: Names of victims being read at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum on the 23rd anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001 terror attacks in Manhattan last year. About one-third of readers at the 2025 service belong to a new generation in the Sept 11 families. — Dave Sanders/The New York Times

TEN-YEAR-OLD Danielle Riches read off some of the names of the dead at the Sept 11 remembrance ceremony last year, strangers who were killed before she was born.

The final name she recited was of the man whose life and loss are always present in her family, her uncle, Jimmy Riches, a New York City firefighter who died trying to save others.

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