Remembering 25 years ago at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum

It's been nearly a quarter of a century since the 9-11 attacks, and those who weren't there are learning what it means to never forget. I visited the 9-11 Memorial Museum on how they're bringing that education to the younger generation. Ask any New Yorker where they were when that first plane hit the Twin Towers. I was across the river in Brooklyn. I was watching first live and then on TV what was going on here, and it was unavoidable. Tragedy was occurring because of what had happened and that the world had changed. For many, September 11th is the moment time split in two. There was simply just before and now after. But the people who lived that day are getting older as the people being asked to remember are getting younger. 25 years later, It's all well and good for people of a certain age like me to say we will never forget because we never will. But if we talk to young people who have nothing to remember, so therefore nothing to forget, it's critical that we bring them the story because that's how they will remember. It's part of the mission for the 9-11 Memorial Museum in Manhattan where the Twin Towers once stood, keeping the stories of those who were there for the generations that weren't. We have that technology in relation to 9-11 and the archives and the documents that were created on that day. And so the power of all of that material I don't think is going to fade over time. But there's something else the museum preserves. Not just what happened here, but what happens next. New York City was determined to come back. There was terrible pain. There was anger. And the museum is part of that. The museum is a sign of the resilience of New York City. And maybe that's where 25 years gets you. You stop asking how a city can move on. The pain always part of the city, but so is the resilience. New York remembers and keeps going. In Manhattan, Julia Burns, News 12.