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Commentary: Is 9/11 a day, or is it an era?

After 20 years, it’s time for TV to treat Sept. 11 as serious, even divisive history, not just dutiful remembrance.

Mourners place flowers and pictures in the name cut-out of Kyung Hee (Casey) Cho at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in New York. Americans commemorated 9/11 as a new national crisis in the form of the coronavirus pandemic reconfigures and divides anniversary ceremonies and a presidential campaign carves a path through the observances. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)