Our View: It’s important not to forget tragedy

Friday is the 14-year anniversary of a plane flying in to the World Trade Center in New York. The day — which we now refer to as its date, 9/11 — went down in U.S. history.

Many of USU’s newest students were four years old when that happened. Even some of the older seniors were in elementary and middle school.

It’s hard to forget that 9/11 happened, in fact it’s almost impossible because the national news cycle does a good job picking the story up every September. It is sometimes easy to become jaded from 9/11.

Between the relative young age of people on this campus, the large number of years since 9/11 and the multitude of tragedies since, it may be easy to let 9/11 get mixed in with the past.

So instead, it is our view that this Friday you should all really think about 9/11. We’re not saying you won’t do that — we’re just suggesting that we all take a moment to appreciate the first responders, mourn the multitude of deaths and appreciate how the country stood together since.

With all the emphasis on the commemoration, it’s easy to grow indifferent. So on Friday, we should all make an active effort not to do so.