Kathy Chaney

Each September 11 brings us back to that clear Tuesday morning in 2001 when our nation was shaken and life as we knew it changed forever. For those of us who lived through the attacks, the images and emotions remain etched in memory.

But for an entire generation of Northwest Indiana students, 9/11 is history, something they learn about in classrooms rather than recall from lived experience.

That reality carries weight. How we choose to tell the story matters.

Across the Region, schools, firehouses and civic groups continue to hold ceremonies and moments of silence. In many communities, you can still see the flag raised at dawn, bagpipes played at memorial services and first responders standing shoulder to shoulder.

But the deeper question for us, nearly a quarter-century

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