Some of my students these days are too young to remember 9/11 directly at all, of course, but many of us still do. I also later learned, by the way, that those intercepting F-16s had scrambled so fast from Andrews that they were still unarmed. Remembering what followedI tell “my” 9/11 story so many years later not because it has any particular significance in itself, but because I want my fellow citizens today to remember that 9/11 was deeply, terribly real. The day before this year’s anniversary of 9/11, America suffered another episode in its lamentable history of periodic political violence, with the horrific assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. You don’t need to have a personal “9/11 story” to be a part of America’s collective and continuing 9/11 story.