BOSTON (SHNS) – On the 24th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, commitments to teaching about 9/11 rang through the House Chamber as impacted families called on the generations distanced from the events to not become “numb” to continued violence.
Fourteen states require schools to teach the subject of 9/11, but Massachusetts is not one of them, education chair of the Massachusetts 9/11 Fund Pat Bavis said Thursday morning during the fund’s annual commemoration. Bavis’ brother was one of the flight passengers who died during the events of 9/11.
The fund added a new program to its annual State House remembrance this week for high school students and teachers who were not alive when the attacks took place, meant to bring attention to the more than 200 people tied to Massachusetts who died and the two planes that originated out of Boston Logan International Airport.
“We’ve become far too numb to all the violence that surrounds us today. We rush from one breaking news story to the next,” Bavis said. “We hear songs on repeat, hits that are celebrating violence…We watch TV shows, movies where death and destruction are just run of the mill plotlines. Far too easy today, far too many forget the suffering then, forget those suffering now.”…