Indeed, you're most likely correct. I just always find it strange how much of the news cycle it dominates each year, even on off-years. I wonder if 25 years after Pearl Harbor the newspapers and radio newscasters were still reporting on it with as much enthusiasm, or were they more focused on the Vietnam conflict and more recent and relevant headlines. Pearl Harbor day today gets like a 5 minute segment and then they move on, but with 9/11 it's almost become an annual cultural event.

It must suck to have been born after 9/11/2001 and constantly be reminded about this attack that you weren't even alive for, all because other people don't want to forget it happened, and you can't even meaningfully participate in the main cultural aspect of 9/11 which is sharing storied about "what were you doing on the day it happened?".