200 jumped to their death from World Trade Center, September 11, 2001. Ten thousand children lost a parent that day.

• Above, Jumpers, 9/11/2001, Reuters photo

 

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• Above, "The Falling Man," 9/11/2001, ap photo by Richard Drew, via Esquire
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10/29/2001, "The Kids They Left Behind: As many as 10,000 children lost a parent on September 11." NY Magazine, Jennifer Senior

"On September 11, [2001] as many as 10,000 children lost a parent in the World Trade Center. A few lost both mother and father; many more were robbed of the only parent they had. A startling number were also very, very young; flip through the sketches of the deceased in the Times, and you realize how 

many victims were young family men, fellows who still had the stamina to work Wall Street hours 

or the strength to charge up dozens of flights of stairs with 80 pounds of firefighting equipment on their backs."... 

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