When big things happen we tend to remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we first heard the news. This is the case with everyone who was old enough to understand what was going on when the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was murdered in 1986. I was just a small kid in 1986 so I don’t remember that.
Something I do remember is when I first heard of the attacks on World Trade Center on 9/11 2001. That was during my senior year of high school and I was actually in school when I first heard the news. It was during an art class and like during most of our art classes we listened to the radio. On the radio news they were talking about the first plane when all of a sudden they said that they were just informed that another plane crashed into the second tower. When I got home I told my mother about what had happened and she remembers that’s how she first heard about it.
Do you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you first heard of some big news?
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I remember when the world trade centers went down I was in class watching it on the news when I was in 6th grade. I was scared to death because I didn’t think war could ever happen to me or my country while I was alive…it was scary because when you learn about war you know it means death and as a 6th grader it freaked me out.
I was at my grandparent’s house in France when I heard about 9/11. We were having pancakes and someone called and told my father to switch on the TV and then we all forgot about the pancakes! :o
Oh I remember 9/11 so clearly too, even though I was only around..second grade at that time. Seeing those towers collapsing on TV early in the morning was really unpleasant. I don’t want to think about how many people were trapped in those buildings. D:
That’s really cute! I am totally going to remember that.
I remember 9/11 too.. I was in sixth grade in homeroom and I was busy scribbling away in my notebook and I realized everything was very quiet so I looked around at my classmates and everyone was staring up in shock at the TV, where they were showing the news. I looked up just in time to see the second plane hit, but right then I had absolutely no idea what was going on. My friend had to explain it to me.
I don’t remember anything else about that day though…
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I remember I was at home eating in the kitchen when the news broke on 9/11. Such a sad day.. :´(
I was a “computer room” at the dorms when I red about two soldiers being kidnapped on the north border. It was last day of school so my parents were supposed to com and get me and all my stuff and they said they are going the long way because missles are falling in the north. I didn’t think anything of tht because missled fell there once in a while.. and then the war started (2006)
i think its impressive how these things have such a huge affect on our lives without us really knowing why. I know exactly where I was, who I was with, the weather, the time, everything. I can remember details about that day years ago but ask me what I was doing last week….i’m at a blank.
that’s true, i remember it very clearly.
i was playing the sims on my computer and having the tv on in the background.
i was in malmö and hanging out with a bunch of other people, having fun at aqvakul? or whatever it is called. i remember hearing people talk about it a bit but i have difficulties understanding swedish, so i didn’t really understand what had happened until i returned to denmark, and then i was completely in shock.
I remember I was in the car on the way to school (11th grade, I think) when I heard about the 9/11 attacks…it was all everybody could talk about that day, and even on the other side of the world in Australia, it was obvious many people were very worried, particularly the day after when our newspaper declared ominously that it could very well be the start of a 3rd world war!
I think you’re right though that people tend to remember where they were when there’s big news, particularly if it’s bad news or something distressing. I even remember the positioning of my bedroom furniture the day my dad came over to tell me my grandfather had died. I guess when something like that happens you can’t help but remember everything about the situation because it has such an impact on you.
Oh, and slightly OT, but you were allowed to listen to the radio in class at school? Awesome!
Ah, that just made me remember, I was in my room after school that day when suddenly on the news I saw what was going on with the twin towers.
I went downstairs to my mom and we watched the news together until my dad came home from work.
Oh god, I remember exactly where I was when 9/11 happened. I remember not even knowing what the twin towers were!
I was sitting in my sixth grade math class learning about geometry or something, and then one of our assistant principals comes in and pulls aside my teacher. They both look absolutely horrified, and everyone starts whispering. Then the principal turns and states, solemnly and clearly, “The Twin Towers and Pentagon have just been attacked.” Everyone immediately abandoned math and sat around to talk about it for another few hours.
I remember when I first heard about 9/11
I was in year 9. For some reason I turned on the TV before I got out of bed, and got ready for school. That was not a daily routine, just had this big urge that something was wrong. I didn’t know what was happening, wondering if it was a movie or something. But I watched it live on TV when the first tower went. When we were at school we all heard about the 2nd tower falling. It was traumatic. We were scared because Australia could’ve been the next target. Freaky.