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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, Americans still live with its legacy

New York: Scott Larsen was 4 years old when his dad, the New York City firefighter he was named after, was killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

His father, then 35, had ​recently been temporarily assigned to Lower Manhattan from his normal firehouse in Woodside, in the ​borough of Queens, when a pair of jets hijacked by al Qaeda Islamist militants crashed into the Twin Towers. He was one of 343 members of the New York City Fire ​Department who died in the attack 25 years ago.

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