Peter Rabbit stuffed animal owned by Christine Lee Hanson, aged 2, youngest victim on 9/11/01
On 9/11/01, 8 children died, all of whom were on the hijacked planes. Inside the towers and pentagon many people age 18 perished but no children. Christine died along with both her parents and 2 other children on United Flight 175, which struck the south tower. 175 is the flight famous for being captured on live television, striking 17 minutes after the first collision in the north tower
Christine was a bright, busy toddler who loved taking trips to the playground and helping her father in the garden. An attentive caretaker of her toys, she favored a stuffed Peter Rabbit character from the classic Beatrix Potter series. It was given to her by her grandmother, Eunice Hanson, in acknowledgement of Christine’s birth in the Chinese Year of the Rabbit. Peter Rabbit replaced Christine’s previously best-loved plaything: a red Teletubby acquired in infancy that “went everywhere with her,” Eunice Hanson recalls.
In 2014, both of these cherished keepsakes were entrusted to the 9/11 Memorial Museum by her grandparents, Eunice and Lee Hanson. Two Winnie the Pooh stickers that Christine placed on Peter Rabbit’s torso are still attached. “She put stickers on everything she liked; I suppose it was her mark of approval,” Eunice Hanson said.
Included in the Hanson’s gift to the Museum was a photograph of Christine celebrating her first birthday, with the word Peace incised on the picture frame. “The Peace frame containing Christine’s picture, taken in a traditional Korean outfit, is most poignant,” said Eunice Hanson. “That one word describes Christine’s parents, who were loving people and believed in kindness. I could ask volumes of questions why this happened to them, given who they were.”
https://www.911memorial.org/connect/blog/new-view-youngest-911-victims-stuffed-peter-rabbit
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