Vera Kuipers was in New York on 9/11 and looks back 20 years later: ‘It looked like a ghost town’ | 20 years after 9/11

The 21-year-old student hastily packs her things for the 9:30 class. Once he arrives at the campus of Hofstra University (in Long Island), a teacher tells that two planes have flown into the World Trade Center, it is an attack. “We were immediately instructed to write a report on terrorism,” says Kuipers, who was born in Gouda.

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