Twenty-five years after losing her father in the collapse of the World Trade Center, Kayla Fallon Smith has transformed a child's unanswered grief into an institution of healing. What began as an eight-year-old waiting for a father who said he was coming home has become Trails of Purpose — a nonprofit that has quietly delivered thirty thousand hours of free therapy to veterans and first responders. Her story asks the oldest human question: what do we do with the weight we are left carrying, and whether it might, in time, become something we offer to others.
9/11 Daughter Transforms Grief Into Purpose With Equine Therapy Nonprofit
William Lawrence Fallon Jr., 38, was killed in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, leaving his 8-year-old daughter Kayla without her father.