On the eve of the 25th anniversary of September 11th, President Trump gathered with sixteen of America's living Medal of Honor recipients at a new museum in Arlington, Texas — a moment that placed individual acts of extraordinary courage within the longer arc of national memory. He signed legislation authorizing a monument near the Lincoln Memorial to honor all recipients of the nation's highest military decoration, named for the last surviving World War II honoree. The occasion was less a political event than a ritual of remembrance, a society pausing to ask itself what it chooses to remember