💬 Opinion Sep 11, 2026 · Bethel McGrew

9/11 in the Age of Unreality

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The new Netflix production Generation 9/11 is one of those documentaries that tries to do too many things at once, but it finds some of its most affecting moments in interviews with the grown children of the dead. One young woman, Laurel Homer, pays moving homage to her father, fallen United 93 copilot LeRoy Homer. As a Zoomer, she feels singularly lonely in her grief. To the rest of her generation, the images of 9/11 are little more than irony-pilled meme fodder. These are not like the memes th

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