The 9/11 Student Journalism Project- Westfield Family Reflects

This package was produced by Travis Fedschun as part of "The 9/11 Student Journalism Project", a class at Rutgers University in the Spring of 2011.

The idea of the 9/11 Project is to have similarly-aged journalism students interview children whose parent died in the Sept. 11, 2001, destruction of the World Trade Center. Now that we are 10 years away from that day, we find that the children of these workers are coming of age. While some were babies when 9/11 happened, many were old enough to understand the implications. All of them have had to live with the loss of their parent and the turmoil that that experience brought to their family. The Rutgers journalism students who participated in the 9/11 Project happened to be about the same age, meaning the vast majority of 9/11 children and Rutgers students found they could speak to each other in a casual but surprisingly straightforward manner because there was no cross-generational barrier.

This interview was with Kaila Starita of Wesfield, New Jersey and her mother. Kaila lost her father, Anthony Starita in the attacks. 10 Years later, both reflect on their lives today in the months leading up to the anniversary.

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