[I still care]

It’s funny how there are certain historical events everyone remembers, while so many important ones they forget.

My mom remembers Pearl Harbor. It’s burned in her mind.

My kids will never forget 9-11.

I was a young child. I was in school I remember my teacher saying, “Oh no” and putting her head on the desk. It was the afternoon and we were all sent home early (they’d never do that nowadays) They took everything else off the airwaves and played music.

It seems strange to me to know grownups who weren’t alive when JFK was killed. I think it is a dividing line between us and a younger generation.

And to politicize this thread, Obama was one of them. And he didn’t even live in the US when King was shot, or RFK. He is an alien creature.

[NEWwoman]

* there are certain historical events everyone remembers *

Right. This was one of them ... if you were alive then.

[antiRepublicrat]

I'm too young for JFK. The three biggies for me are Reagan getting shot, the space shuttle explosion, and of course 9/11. I'll never forget this picture.

Where did that thing come from?

[Joe 6-pack]

"My mom remembers Pearl Harbor. It’s burned in her mind...My kids will never forget 9-11."

The first such day of my life was January 28, 1986 when the Challenger exploded.