As you walk through the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City, it does not take long for the gravity of what took place on that hallowed ground to overwhelm you.

From rusty, twisted steel tridents to a half-destroyed fire engine, there are symbols of the destruction that took place on what had otherwise been a beautiful Tuesday morning in New York City in 2001.

Of course, the horror of 9/11 extended to the walls of a military fortress in Washington and a grassy field in Pennsylvania, a fact also represented in various places in the memorial and museum.

For many years while I worked at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, I had the distinct privilege of taking groups of cadets through the memorial and museum. Those trips hold many special memories. Once, I watched a cadet fi

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