The article relates the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on several survivors. Topics discussed include the role of Christian faith in the ability of Brian Clark to deal with the experience, emergence of Shirley Brooks-Jones as an honorary graduate of Lewisporte Collegiate and recipient of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2007, and the influence of the attacks in the rise in Islamophobia according to David Adeeb Hassan of Ontario.