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After speaking to a British 9/11 victim's son 25 years on... the message for younger generations couldn't be clearer

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I spoke to the son of a British man who died in the 9/11 attacks 25 years ago about the importance of the younger generation remembering the atrocity of September 2001. As a 24-year-old, I was not yet born to witness the coordinated attacks on September 11, 2001 , which killed 2,977 people , excluding the 19 hijackers, and injured more than 6,000 others. Like millions of people my age, I have grown up learning about September 11 through photographs, footage and the stories of those who were there. But Jonathan Egan lost his father Michael, 51, and aunt Christine, 55, in the deadliest terrorist act the world has ever witnessed. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say During an interview with the now 43-year-old, he told GB News: "9/11 was not just an attack on New York and the United States, it was an attack on the free world. There were citizens of over 90 countries in that building that were killed. It was an attack on our entire way of life." "It is vital to our way of life, to the future h

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