I think in the future, we're going to see effects on people who did not experience the event themselves, but we're told about it from their parents and their teachers. We're going to see how the children and the city that day processed it differently, perhaps, then the rest of us did. Who will those children grow up to be? Will they accept that we live in the state of perpetual war now and not be sad about that?" Mary Marshall Clark, Director of Columbia Center for Oral History Research, lamented in a short video of History channel for 9/11 anniversary attack
Even after fifteen years since the country was bombed on September 11, 2001, people that day can still surely tell now where they were, what they were doing, and how they felt when the Twin Towers were hit. That day is a time they will remember for the rest of their lives.
For some, however, who was not born yet at the time, only learned about this tragic event from their history classes, or from their parents, or from news coverages for the commemoration of the bombing. The worst scenario would be that the 9/11 attack which was recorded as one of the deadliest events in the U.S. history would be reduced to nothing but a day of sentimentalities where the new generation is alienated from.
"The reality is that for these kids, this is history. This is not current events, this is history," Dianna Lindsay, a history teacher Williamsburg Christian Academy, said in an article in The Virginia Gazette
The generation after the 9/11 bombing is a fifteen-year-old teenager now and a freshman in high school. In another article of KUTV 2 News some summer-faced high school students does not think that 9/11 is part of their "realm of reality" because the attack happened before even they were born and feels like it is a part of a distant history that they are not part of.
This upcoming 9/11 anniversary, however, educators, survivors and common people alike are taking the opportunity to introduce and share to the next generation their experiences from the traumatic event.
One of which is Corey Daniel who was a survivor and a financial advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network. He will be a guest speaker at the Never Forget Tribute for the 9/11 anniversary where he hopes to share in reflecting on his experiences and the war against terrorism to the generation who was not able to experience it first hand so they will understand the event's importance in our history.
