What are we supposed to remember about 9/11?

What are we supposed to remember about 9/11?
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Great question!! What does remembering horror, in and of itself, do? I’ve come to believe the “Never again” line about the Holocaust has been rendered meaningless by the multiplicity of genocides since then. I have no idea what the “lesson” of 9/11 is or should be unless, like the many stories from the Holocaust, it is that there are many people who do bad things in the world and many people who act heroically in response.
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