"I wear number 33 because that's the age my dad was when he was killed on 9/11," Ronald Jr. tells PEOPLE in this week's issue. "When I'm wearing that number, it's for him."
The 14-year-old San Antonio high schooler is one of six teens profiled in this week's PEOPLE who weren't yet born when their fathers died in the 9/11 attacks.
Although Ronald feels his late father Ronald Sr.'s presence deeply, the circumstances surrounding his death at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, were rarely discussed at home.
"I never told them the story and they never asked," says Jacqueline Milam, who was five months pregnant and also working at the Pentagon at the time. "It's just sad, and I don't like breaking down in front of my kids."
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