Millions of New Yorkers remain scarred by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists stole almost 3,000 innocent lives and made our state into Ground Zero for the worst terror attack America has ever suffered .

But for today’s K-12 students, 9/11 is not memory — it is history.

None of them were alive to experience it.

That’s why we, the parents, educators and leaders who lived it, have a responsibility to ensure they never forget it .

As a father of two elementary-aged children, I feel this urgency deeply.

My kids don’t remember the sight of smoke billowing from Lower Manhattan, or recall the shock of learning that four planes had been hijacked.

They cannot know the grief of attending funerals day after day.

For them, the story of 9/11 is only as real as what we choose to tea

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