This week marks 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001. Every year, we get further away from that day. The visceral components fade into a more manageable memory. Like most horrors, the shock and pain still linger as we move on. But this never means we forget the terrible events or how profoundly they changed our nation. 

For those who were either too young or not yet born to experience Sept. 11, the experience is naturally quite altered. For some, there’s almost a bitterness about how much that day occupies the forefront of the American mind. It’s as if there’s an undercurrent of annoyance that this day is treated with more historical significance than ones they’ve personally gone through. 

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