What, if anything, did Americans learn 25 years after 9/11?

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 by Brad Pearce | Sep 11, 2026Twenty-five years since the September 11 attacks, it is trite to say that if Americans as a whole learned anything, they learned none of the right things.I was in eighth grade at the time, attending a rural school over 2,000 miles from New York City, but nevertheless everyone was still greatly impacted by the human tragedy. However, while the experience of attending a government school had already made me sure the “adults in the room” running society were ...