Amy Ballmer waits for a subway with her daughter, Lola.
Amy Ballmer waits for a subway with her daughter, Lola.

Amy Ballmer doesn’t revisit some aspects of her September 11, 2001, experience–and, she doesn't call it her “9/11 experience,” either.

She has strong feelings about what happened that day.

She was 25 years old.

“It was a beautiful morning, and I was walking to work, close to where I lived in Brooklyn, just listening to a CD, not aware of what was happening. When I got there, I found out my mom had ca…