Jan 22 2016 16:26 pm / By JPachucki in From the Museum
This winter, the 9/11 Memorial Museum is inspired by a special artifact that belonged to one of the youngest 9/11 victims, Asia Cottom.Asia Cottom, Gift of Michelle Cottom.
A vivacious 11-year-old, Cottom was just starting her sixth grade school year at Bertie Backus Middle School in Washington, D.C. when she was chosen to attend a National Geographic Society conference with a teacher in the Channel Islands located off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, she and her teacher, Sara Clark, boarded Flight 77 bound for California. Hijackers overtook the plane and crashed into the Pentagon, killing all aboard.
