It’s faded.Not from decay.Not from neglect.
It’s simply the passage of time.The memories are vague.Elusive.
Distant.And some who lived it are simply no longer here.Roughly one-third of all Americans who were alive on 9/11 aren’t around any more to observe the 25th anniversary of that abominable day.
And so the recollections of September 11, 2001 are diluted.NEW 9/11 MUSEUM EXHIBIT AIMS TO CONNECT YOUNGER AMERICANS TO THE ATTACKS THROUGH POWERFUL ARTIFACTSA boy points towards the center of the reflecting pool at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York, US, on Sunday, Sept.11, 2022.
Today marks the 21st anniversary of the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks where four hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field and brought nearly 3,000 people to their deaths.
(Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)To some, September 11th is just another day.But it’s something different for those who weren’t around to live and breath the horror.To many, 9/11 is like Pearl Harbor Day.
Lots of people know about it.They understand it’s what triggered the U.S.’s entry into World War II.
But they can’t quite explain much more.The same with other historical-shifting moments.August 6 and 9, 1945 — the days the U.S.
bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II.November 22, 1963 — the day a gunman mowed down President John F.
Kennedy Jr.in Dallas.A lot of people remember the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding.
But few could tell you that it happened on January 28, 1986.The quintessence of 9/11 is the date.Kind of like July 4th.
A bit like January 6th and the Capitol riot.However, we were told on September 11, 2001, that things would never be the same.
But how can those who didn’t experience it understand what "the same" was like if the y never lived it?Just last month, a relative of mine who soon turns 26 asked "what it was like it to fly before 9/11?"I can regale you with stories ...