COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Xavier Mountjoy sits on his bed in a shirt and shorts, sunglasses and dark blond bangs side edges, frames, hazel eyes and squinted eyebrows furrowed. It is telling his parents how he had recently said that the September 11, 2001, had a meaning beyond being the day he was born, but all I remember the time you have said some of the planes crashing into the three regions.
In his life, he says, it's just not a big deal.
Like millions of children are born in the last ten years, has never known a world untouched by the terrorist attacks of that day. He played baseball and football and hates math, like the generations before him, but is growing into a normal form of the events of that day and the people behind them. In this world, the Army has introduced a number of his relatives abroad, and security agents to maintain tighter border controls and enforce the travel restrictions that leave flyers in a row security in socks or bare feet in the airport near his home in a leafy avenue in Columbus.
As for Osama bin Laden, said the boy, who was it? Xavier remembers hearing about the death of Bin Laden the day after it happened, when he told colleagues said: "Obama is dead!" and a teacher said it was not the president. If the explanation most often do not identify with Xavier.
"I do not really know what he was talking about," he said. "And frankly, I do not really, because I had no idea."
There are more important things in this laid-back kid, like What's for dinner, or the bad guys can kill its Wii games. It was much prefer to tell visitors to change weapons, one imagines, sketches and likes to talk about what happened on her birthday.
Of the 13,238 children born in the United States of September 11, Greg and Nikki Montjoie their first child was among the first, pointing to Mount Caramel Hospital Sainte-Anne, when the day was 67 minutes of life. They were the parents first, not knowing what to expect but found it odd at the end of the morning, when they have visited relatives and staff began to seem elusive and when the child was the nursery. Finally, a nurse called her mother to wake her husband to sleep and turn on the television.
Nikki Montjoy cradled her child when he watched the images of the smoking twin towers. Events had led to a block in a hospital, to avoid Montjoys "visitors, he said. When allowed, the family crowded into his room, close the television and turned their attention to Xavier.
"Everyone wanted to be with this child, because that's what we all kind of cling to was that we had a good day," she said.
Her husband remembers a visit from a nurse's room and asks if they have heard the great news.
"I said," Yeah. We had a baby, "he said.
Nikki Mountjoy, said the attacks cast a shadow over the death of his first week as a mom, and she was extra Xavier closely, worrying about the time to be with him and what would happen if, for example, someone stole a plane The nearby airport.
His greatest success came as the world had changed six months later, on the way to Chicago. Remember, airport security officials need to taste the food, her diaper bag, including breast milk, and take off her clothes so that the child could be retrieved.
"It 'was very strange, as if in a foreign country," he said.
Your child has not flown since then, but travel restrictions have caused setbacks in plans for the family. In Niagara Falls this summer, he had to jump on the Canadian side, because they could not get the passport cards in the time required for the trip. It seemed ridiculous to the parents of Javier, who had visited the young without the additional documentation required.
Days after the journey of the Falls, and before the scheduled interview, journalist, Xavier's parents decided to have their first detailed conversation with him in the terrorist attacks of what he had learned a little 'about it at school, but had not been asked a lot. They began to talk to him, when a family dinner, and realized that had to be a serious discussion, when his grandfather, a Vietnam veteran, began to cry, Nikki Montjoy said.
Father Xavier, a consultant for 35 years, unemployment insurance, and his mother, a nursing student, 34, told him about al-Qaeda, the Pentagon and New York, but cautions that the day was not free moments of kindness. People died in a fourth plane to sacrifice to save others, they said.
They expected questions of their son, a boy curious, taking advanced courses at school. He wanted to know what happened to the people at Ground Zero.
"It 'was the first thing, he is glued to a year: Well, if all these people were locked and they are all dead, found them Where to go?" his mother.
The site became a memorial, his parents said the final resting place for some. He had seen pictures of the front, perhaps unconsciously, in a photo flipbook, his mother bought him on a trip to the Big Apple years ago.
Xavier said the conversation with his parents changed their perception of their date of birth, but I can not put into words.
"Change, like, what I feel for my birthday," he said. "I do not know how."
Attacks flashbacks to produce images, and even the tears of many adults, but not for Xavier. He is not as painful memories begin. He seems to be the day in comparison with the history of significant events of his young life - the beginning of the school and the birth of his sister, Isabella, now 5
Learning of his birth, some adults raise their eyebrows, but he shrugs.
"He said," I was born that day. I had no idea what happened, "he said.
This is a difficult subject to understand young people, including those who share the birthday of Xavier.
"Now there are 10, they understand that they have some weight on her birthday, if you want, and I think that kind of understanding that their birthday parties," one of the celebrations, the other not, said Christine Naman Monroeville, Pennsylvania whose son was born on September 11 and has produced a book about these children.
His family makes sure to take time away from birthday party to remember the importance of what happened, he said.
In Ohio, the parents refuse to let Xavier become a day of sadness instead of joy in their home, planning a birthday party every year.
"It's good for everybody," his mother said. Usually there is a theme, like "Harry Potter" or the movie "Transformers," but has not been decided by this year.
The exception was his first birthday, when family members went out of town to attend the first anniversary party of family-oriented attacks. Xavier parents asked guests to put the palms of the handprints and left paint on the wall of the basement stairs, hoping he remembers the guy who, even if bad things happened, there would be a lot of people who love and seek to make it better.
Basically, his mother said she printed a quote: "The hands of children today shape the future."
