[NYPOST] Once, the people of our traumatized nation cried out, in unison — "Never forget!" Now, 20 years after 9/11, we’re suffering from a case of willful, mass amnesia.Never forget?
Pretty soon, we’ll be lucky if there’s anyone left to remember the day Islamic butchers crashed four planes into the heart of our country, leaving a trail of chaos, murder and so many tears. Because in large swaths of this nation, the woke folks in charge have chosen to discard memories of the darkest day in American history. And it frightens me.
Only 14 states — 14! — have mandated classroom instruction about the terror attacks of 9/11. On the honor roll is a jumble of places, only some scorched by terror: Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and New York.
But in most of this country, including big states like Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and small ones down to Rhode Island, there exists no requirement that instructors say one word about 9/11. Even governments in New Jersey and Connecticut, two states that lost a large number of people who came to work in New York’s fallen World Trade Center, have not seen fit to require that all school kids learn why some parents or grandparents failed to come home one day in September. Nor are there mandated 9/11 lessons in Pennsylvania, where a downed jet crashed into a field, killing everyone aboard.
The result is that kids not yet born on that day are likely to stare blankly at any mention of the date. Given the opportunity to impart lessons on terrorism in the classrooms, many schools, school districts or individual teachers choose to opt out, or simply gloss over the subject each year as 9/11 rolls around.