What Do We Owe the Generation That Doesn’t Remember 9/11?

What Do We Owe the Generation That Doesn’t Remember 9/11?

"We owe them the truth. We owe them the stories. And we owe them an understanding of what happened, not simply on Sept. 11, but in the days, months and years that followed. Sept. 11 was not only a story of unimaginable loss. It was also a story of people."

The 9/11 Footage Didn’t Change — We Did: And for That We Owe the Victims an Apology

Reflecting on 9/11: honoring victims, confronting division, and the nation's lost unity.

What we owe to those who don’t remember 9/11?

Twenty-five years ago, I experienced Sept. 11 as a college student. I was a student at Florida A&M University, where my band mates in the world famous Marching 100 were preparing to board a charter bus to travel with the Rattler football team. Then the news came: A plane had struck the World Trade Center. Another had hit the Pentagon. And then another had crashed in Pennsylvania.

9/11: What we owe the generations who do not remember

Twenty-five years ago today, I was a relatively new reporter at a small newspaper, still learning the business and probably believing I knew considerably more about it than I actually did. Sept. 11, 2001, was a press day. That detail has always stuck with me because while something unimaginable was happening hundreds of miles away, our little newsroom still had a newspaper to put out. In addition to being a reporter, I was the paginator, which m…

What we owe a generation that doesn’t remember 9/11

Twenty-five years ago, I experienced September 11 as a college student. I was a student at Florida A&M University (FAMU), where my bandmates in the world-famous Marching 100 were preparing to board a charter bus to travel with the Rattler football team. Then the news came: A plane had struck the World Trade Center. Another