Their impressions have been formed piecemeal through family stories, news coverage, and an evolving American narrative about what the day represents – a story that has since been intermingled with a decade of war, recession, and the threat of more terrorism. Most children today weren’t around to experience firsthand the terror and sadness of 9/11. That understanding has shifted with time. What these drawings tell us is that even young children had an understanding of what was going on.” “I think that sometimes we underestimate what kids see and hear. “Drawings are a real depiction of the moment,” said Lori Evans, a psychologist at the NYU Child Study Center. In a national moment of grief and panic – and an equally charged time of remembrance – artwork becomes a way for children re-interpret painful images in more familiar terms, to make sense of the unimaginable. The people at the top of the building are telling the people who lived to get well soon,” they wrote 10 years ago in a caption to their art.Ī decade later, 5-year-old Ava Bullis of Old Bridge, N.J., drew an American flag and a U.S. “The dinosaurs, the policemen, the doctors and the construction workers are building the new World Trade Center. September 11 didn’t make sense to 7-year-old Julian Cortez and 8-year-old Paul Keim, so they drew a scene that gave them comfort in the days after the terrorist attacks. Photo by Julian Cortez and Paul Keim, courtesy of the NYU Child Study Center
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