“everybody in the US is going to know someone, or be within a degree or two of separation of knowing someone who perished”
My daughter was born on 7/11/2001, two months before 9/11. Fifteen years later, she got a new basketball coach at her high school in VA. We found out later that the coach’s FIL was killed at the Pentagon in the attack. Her coach had a tattoo in remembrance of him.