Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, a Virginia school district's attempt to teach that history with care for its diverse students has drawn the scrutiny of a conservative legal group, revealing an enduring tension in American civic life: how a nation remembers its wounds without inflicting new ones. Fairfax County Public Schools distributed a six-page guide instructing teachers to focus on victims and resilience rather than the attackers' ideology, prompting America First Legal to file a Freedom of Information Act request demanding to know who shaped those instructions. The dispu