Last Thursday was the thirteenth anniversary of September 11, 2001.  Edina High School failed to teach about, or even acknowledge this important event in United States history.

When after 13 years, EHS forgot to honor 9/11, it caused disappointment in the student body, as students have come to expect remembrance of it every year.

“The impact of 9/11 doesn’t span a certain amount of time. We have to keep the remembrance of 9/11 from dying out,” said junior Natalie Omodt.

Just because it has been 13 years since September 11, 2001, doesn’t mean that we should stop honoring the Americans that died that day. Not honoring 9/11 only 13 years after it happened is no different than deciding not to celebrate the Fourth of July because it has been 238 years since the Declaration of Independence was signed. The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 is crucial to our history as a nation, and needs to be honored.

“A terrorist attack is something that should always be remembered, and 13 years is too soon to stop thinking about it,” said senior Katie Mugge.

Not acknowledging this important national tragedy made EHS look disrespectful, said Omodt. It made the school seem like it doesn’t care. Whereas EHS sophomore Nate Carlin said, “It makes the school seem ignorant and indifferent. We do care, we just didn’t think to include a moment of silence this year.”

Is it really too much to ask for a moment of silence? One minute. Sixty seconds to take a short amount of time from our hectic lives to devote to the victims; to the the brave men and women who ran into the World Trade Center, and never ran out. Are we really that busy? Or did we forget that the 11th day in September means something significant?

If we can’t even dedicate a minute to September 11, 2001, what’s to keep us from forgetting the day altogether? Edina needs to do better.

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