“No day,” as the poet Virgil wrote in words emblazoned on a 9/11 Memorial and Museum wall, shall erase the victims of the attacks “from the memory of time.”
But on the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the families who have gathered in Lower Manhattan for the annual memorial ceremony year after year are grappling not only with the grief of the loved ones they lost, but also the fear that the day’s importance is fading from public memory.
