For young Americans, the 9/11 attacks and subsequent wars are history, not memory

For Harper Cline, Sept. 11, 2001, is not a memory. It is a story she inherited.

“Everyone knows exactly what they were doing on that day, or where they were, but it’s weird too, because we don’t know what life was like before that,” the high school senior from Bradenton, Florida, explained.

She was born into a country already at war. By the time she was old enough to understand what war…