![]() In the hospital waiting room sat his father Ashish and Ashish's brother, Manish, glued to the television. The South Tower had fallen six minutes earlier and the North Tower would collapse in a little more than an hour. Shrivastava was born at 10:05 am on that Tuesday morning 20 years ago in a hospital in Princeton, New Jersey, just outside New York. Shrivastava was one of approximately 13,000 children born in the United States the same day al-Qaeda hijackers crashed two planes into the twin towers killing almost 3,000 people.īut few can likely claim that their arrival helped save a life. ![]() Anish Shrivastava's life has been molded by the events of the day he was born: September 11, 2001.įrom his uncle skipping work at the World Trade Center that day to attend his birth to how Shrivastava celebrates his birthday, 9/11 is never far away. ![]()
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