20 years ago, I was in third grade. I think my class was coming back from music or library, walking down the carpeted hallways of our elementary school. But then a teaching aid came out of the main office crying. And then the school psychologist and principal. Seeing adults cry scared me. I was silent when our teacher told us what was happening in New York and the Pentagon. I didn’t really get it. I was too young to understand the weight of the words “terrorist attack” and how they somehow affected me.
But 9/11 has affected all of us, every living being, in countless ways. In this episode of Mosaic, we’ll hear from four different people– Sher Singh, Andrea Mazzarino, Meg O’Neill, and Padma Venkatraman – about their experiences with 9/11.
The first is Sher Singh. He’s a network engineer who has spent decades working on government contracts, developing systems for the Navy. And he’s Sikh. The day after 9/11, Sher was on an Amtrak train from Boston to Virginia when the train stopped in Providence. SWAT team removed, arrested, and detained Singh. I caught up with him 20 years later, to see how that day, September 12th, lives in his memory.
