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In this July 11, 2011 picture, Xavier Montjoy plays a video game at his home in Columbus, Ohio. Montjoy was born hours before the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Like millions of children born in the past decade, Xavier has never known a world untouched by that days terror attacks. Hes played baseball and soccer and hates math like generations before him but is growing up in a new normal. In this world, Afghanistan has always been a place of war, and several of his relatives in the military have been deployed overseas. Border security was tightened, and there are travel restrictions that hamper family trips and force travelers to stand in security lines in socks or bare feet at the airport near his house on a tree-lined Columbus street. (AP Photo/Kantele Franko)
In this July 11, 2011 picture, Xavier Montjoy plays a video game at his home in Columbus, Ohio. Montjoy was born hours before the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Kantele Franko)
In this Monday, June 27, 2011 picture, Xavier Montjoy stands by the door where his mother has tracked his height since his birth on Sept. 11, 2001 in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Kantele Franko)
In this July 11, 2011 picture, Xavier Montjoy plays a video game at his home in Columbus, Ohio. Montjoy was born hours before the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Like millions of children born in the past decade, Xavier has never known a world untouched by that days terror attacks. Hes played baseball and soccer and hates math like generations before him but is growing up in a new normal. In this world, Afghanistan has always been a place of war, and several of his relatives in the military have been deployed overseas. Border security was tightened, and there are travel restrictions that hamper family trips and force travelers to stand in security lines in socks or bare feet at the airport near his house on a tree-lined Columbus street. (AP Photo/Kantele Franko)
This July 11, 2011 picture shows Xavier Montjoy, center, with his father, Greg, left, younger sister, Isabella, and mother, Nikki, at their home in Columbus, Ohio. Xavier was born hours before the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Like millions of children born in the past decade, Xavier has never known a world untouched by that days terror attacks. Hes played baseball and soccer and hates math like generations before him but is growing up in a new normal. In this world, Afghanistan has always been a place of war, and several of his relatives in the military have been deployed overseas. Border security was tightened, and there are travel restrictions that hamper family trips and force travelers to stand in security lines in socks or bare feet at the airport near his house on a tree-lined Columbus street. (AP Photo/Kantele Franko)
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Xavier Montjoy sits on his bed in a T-shirt and shorts, his side-swept blond bangs and dark-rimmed glasses framing squinted hazel eyes and furrowed brows. He’s trying to recount how his parents recently explained that Sept. 11, 2001, had meaning beyond being …