Oh yes I remember 9/11very well. I had just gotten the kids off to school when my mother-in-law called and said turn on the news. I was shocked to see and hear what was happening. I will never forget that day.
Rose

1945 My mother's uncle, whose land my dad sharecropped, shouted happily to my mom, "He's home!" His son, my second cousin, had been overseas fighting WWII and after the German and Japanese surrenders, had come home. One of mom's brothers and one of my dad's also came home.

9/11.01 I'd just gotten out of bed, my husband and I were about to eat breakfast when my sister in another state called. "Is your tv on?" "No. Why?" "I think we're at war." I was so stunned I couldn't take it in until we turned on the television.

1/2011 The phone woke me up that morning. "He's gone." The lady at the nursing home informed me. And my life changed as drastically as the day we said "I do," more than fifty years before.

These are the times that try men's and women's souls. As you have shown, everybody has memories of key dates. On 9/11/2001 I was walking the End-to-end in England, not far from Wigan, and I was carrying a cellphone for the first time. My wife was at a records center doing family research. She called my phone, said, "This is not a joke," and the line went dead. This happened twice more. Finally, somebody in the records office led her to another phone and we were able to talk. She said, "We are at war." I asked who we were at war with. Hours later we met at the Charles Dickens Inn. I got there first and watched on the telly as the planes crashed into the buildings time after time.

well done Eva. i also remember those moments, and others like some of those have already left theirs. thank you for reawakening them for a moment.

Old guy like me can still remember many of the "Rotted in Time" dates.
Here in California, I was in our 2nd bed room writing when my wife (at that time) called me into the other room to show me what was happening... Horrible, "horrible"... I had a job to do on that morning and she asked
if I was still going to go. I said "yes" because if I don't they win."

11/22/62 I was living in the Chicago area at that time and heard the announcement on my car radio while on my way home...

I was seven years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and remember the sadness that overtook the entire family...

Nice to be able to remember some good stuff.

Mark

Wow, that's really neat, what you did. Me, I remember when it was announced over the radio that Robert Kennedy had died. I was sitting on a swing, lolling in the sun, when the announcement came from the radio my dad played in the garage. I remember one of my tears dropped into the sand below my bare feet. He died June 6, 1968. I remember when Princess Di was killed. I was sitting in my son's room watching his tv with him when the report pre-empted a show. She was killed August 31, 1997. On September 11th, 2001, my husband called me from his work and told me to turn on the tv to see the news. I stood in the living room not registering what I was seeing, when the second plane hit the tower.

It is those horrid moments that solidified our memories from our past, like it or not. Psychologists agree that we tend to forget the bad things in our lives and even tend to make some bad things better than they really were. Tending towards the good.

I had young parents and couldn't imagine my father dying at 15. It must have ben devastating for you. I was commuting on the freeway to work when I heard of the first plane crashing. My immediate thought was "terrorists!" On the other hand, that Friday morning when Kennedy was shot, I was preparing to drive home to take the Thanksgiving week off so that I could have my spinal surgery and get back to school soon. It was only when I got in the hospital, watching television and saw a Ruby shoot Oswald, that the whole incident became clear. I was old enough and had voted for Kennedy and going to the moon!

Ron

September 11, 2001, I had just begun working in my office. I turned around to have a mini chat with my co-workers. Somebody came into the office and told us some planes had crashed into the Trade Centers and I was in total disbelieve! I thought it was a fabricated event until another co-worker turned on the radio to confirm the sad news. Even though I was in Canada but I felt bad for the Americans. It was a really sad day! We all grieved.

Sandie

September 11, 2001, I had just arrive in the office on John Street, in lower Manhattan, when I heard a loud boom! I thought it might be a truck back-firing, but trucks haven't done that in a long time! Soon a co-worker announced that something had crashed into the World Trade Center. We got up from our chairs and ran to the window. Looking up John Street we saw smoke and dust coming out of the WTC, so were bodies falling from the windows. Later that day we stood in the lobby of our building and watched as dust and large clumps of cement fell and exploded on the street outside the thick glass doors. When the dust settled, we covered our noses and mouths with handkerchiefs or scarves and headed home. As we sat on the NJ Transit crossing the Meadowlands, we stood to look out the windows at the place where the WTC used to be.