Los Gatos High School alumni Mark Bingham and Todd Beamer were two of the nearly 3,000 people killed on Sept. 11, 2001.
More than two decades later, Los Gatos Mayor Maria Ristow thinks about her former one-year-old who is now 23.
Bagpiper Lettie Smith performs the song “Amazing Grace” during the Veterans Memorial & Support Foundation Remembering 9/11 event on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023, in Los Gatos, Calif. Ensuring that an entire generation born after 9/11 knows of the events that took place on that day and the days after seemed to resonate with many in attendance on Sunday.
“They need to understand what happened,” the Vietnam veteran said. “When I was a kid, World War II was over and Korea was going on. We learned about World War II in history and about how you don’t want to have wars.”