Sept. 11, 8 years later

The importance of remembering the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the importance of moving on

"The horrors of Sept. 11, 2001, are still vivid for many Americans, especially the families of the victims," said The New York Times in an editorial. So it's a shame that the ceremony at ground zero on the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attack is happening at "an unfinished place," where the planned memorial pools and ring of skyscrapers have yet to be built. Rebuilding is vital to our effort to move on—it shouldn't have taken this long.

"Life moves on" regardless, said Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal, and that's "painful for those who will not forget and cannot be comforted." But "9/11 was for America's kids exactly what Nov. 22, 1963, was for their parents and uncles and aunts." They'll always remember that day—it changed them in more ways than we know.

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