BOSTON (SHNS) - Nearly a quarter-century after a day that many will never forget, the Massachusetts 9/11 Fund added a new program to its annual State House remembrance this week for high school students -- and even some teachers -- who were not alive when the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, took place.

The theme of this year's events is "Living Legacies: The Education of 9/11," the 9/11 Fund said as it pointed out that, regardless of when they were born, many students and some teachers are not aware that more than 200 people with ties to Massachusetts died in the attacks, or that two of the planes originated out of Boston's Logan Airport. Fourteen states require schools to teach the subject of 9/11, but Massachusetts is not one of them, the group said.

"Without a formal education plan

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