# Gen Z recalls first learning about ‘deeply harrowing, terrifying’ 9/11

https://mins.news/en/item/55604

- BBC News, 2026-09-11 17:21 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgmrzzkjywlo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Members of Generation Z were too young to remember the 11 September 2001 attacks, but recall when they first learned about them years later through school, family stories or their own research. Several say they only gradually grasped the event’s gravity and wider consequences as they grew older.

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