For some, birthdays are joyous celebrations. For others, they are painful reminders of those who have passed. For Madison Rose Zehnder, it’s always been a mixture of both.
Zehnder was born Sept. 11, 2003, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the second anniversary of the horrific terror attacks that scared the country. Now, 24 years later, it is still the largest foreign terrorist attack on U.S. soil in the nation’s history, killing 2,977 people, including 441 first responders, the largest number in U.S. history, according to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.
On that fateful day, nearly two dozen Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four separate commercial airplanes departing from the East Coast to California, turning the aviation vehicles into weapons, coordinating targeted strikes on key U.S. institutions…