Omar Posts Video Recalling ‘Horror’ of 9/11

“I was 18-years-old when that happened,” Omar said in the somber video. “I was in a classroom in college and I remember rushing home after being dismissed and getting home and seeing my father in complete horror as he sat in front of that TV. And I remember just feeling, like the world was ending.”

“The events of 9/11 were life-changing, life-altering for all of us,” she said. “My feeling around it is one of complete horror. None of us are ever going to forget that day and the trauma that we will always have to live with.”

Omar has previously faced criticism for comments she made that some saw as trivializing the attacks. At a 9/11 memorial speech in New York on Wednesday, Nicholas Haros Jr., the son of a victim of the attacks, wore a t-shirt bearing Omar’s quote that was deemed disrespectful: “some people did something?”