25 Years Later, She Rewatched the 9/11 Footage She Filmed

Thuc Doan Nguyen-Brophy, who filmed the World Trade Center attack from her Chinatown apartment on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, avoided watching the footage for 25 years; in a future-facing look at memory and trauma, she returns to the apartment for the first time in 25 years and finally watches the tape, reflecting on resilience, safety, and how time reshapes what we remember.