Offspring pay touching tributes to parents claimed by attacks

Some 3,000 children lost a parent in the attacks on the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City on 9/11. They were babies, toddlers and some yet to be born.

Dena Smagala, whose husband, firefighter Stan Smagala, died when Tower Two collapsed, told the current issue of People magazine the babies were "the last kiss, the last gift". The magazine profiles children of fathers killed before their offspring were born.

Smagala's daughter Alexa, whose father was a crew member of fire engine 226 in Brooklyn, said, "It was hard growing up and not understanding where he was."