As the nation marks 24 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, teachers from across the country joined a program at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum to learn how to pass on its lessons to a generation in which nearly one-third were born after the tragedy. | CBS Evening News

"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you. And I know this because, at certain points, I have been you. I have felt this way too. I have felt like what I was seeing and hearing on the news didn't reflect what I was seeing and hearing in my own life. And that the most urgent questions simply weren't being as

Ahead of Memorial Day, a group of lawmakers — some still in suits after an all-night vote — gathered in the early morning rain to wash the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Jack Bergman, a retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General, is one of only three vietnam veterans left in Congress. CBS News’ Margaret Brennan shows how this quiet tradition honors the 58,000 Americans who never came home. | CBS Evening News