Gen Zer reveals parents survived 9/11—never expected one detail to go viral

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. When 19-year-old Ryan Stocker uploaded a short clip to TikTok in July about her parents' escape from New York City on September 11, 2001, she was just sharing a piece of family history she had grown up hearing. What the Kentucky-based teenager did not expect was for the video to draw more than 8.8 million views, and for many people to share in the comments that they cannot comprehend how an adult...