Our View: 15 years later, we can do better

Without a doubt, the events of Sept. 11, 2001, will forever live with the people who experienced them or watched the tragedy unfold live on TV.

Some may have been students walking into class when the events took place while others may have been sitting to breakfast or starting their workday. Like when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, the Challenger space shuttle exploded or, going further back, when Pearl Harbor was attacked, there is a generation of people who have where they were and what they were doing that day permanently etched into their memories.

In the past 15 years, the nation has e...