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From living memory into history

by KERRI THORESON / Main Street
| September 9, 2026 1:00 AM

Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa., which claimed nearly 3,000 everyday American lives. Life as we knew it, including air travel, changed forever.

A thought-provoking new documentary, "Turning Point: Generation 9/11," began airing on Netflix this month, and we watched it over the weekend. A few sobering takeaways as someone who was 49 when the attacks happened … “We’re at a moment in American life when the events of 9/11 are beginning to slip meaningfully from living memory into history.”

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