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by Brendan Dunne
Any American who was old enough to understand what was happening on Sep. 11, 2001, likely remembers where they were on that tragic day. One of them shared his story on today's 14th anniversary of the attacks, with a pair of Nike Solo Flight sneakers at the center of his recollection.
Instagram user heckgotkicks posted the below photo this morning, captioned with a description of his 9/11 experience. As he tells it, he went to school in downtown Manhattan a couple blocks from the World Trade Center. He describes running for his life once the first tower collapsed only to have his shoe, the Nike Solo Flight colorway pictured above, fall off his foot. He says he ran back, grabbed the sneaker, and resumed running from the raining debris.
While his grabbing the sneaker wasn't a wise move in retrospect, the story reflects the extent to which the footwear-obsessed can recall the pairs that were involved in pivotal moments in their lives.
