9/11.

Robespear: usually but my kids have been out of school for a while so I'm no longer sure. For some this is merely historical and not part of their history

Everyone posts about it on social media

they do events at the 9/11 Memorial at the very least

and flags are at half-mast nationally

or half-staff, whatever it's called

There are marathon showings of documentaries.

Robespear It's good that they haven't experienced something like that in their lives. May it stay that way for them. I'm going to ask a question about 9/11 for the Europeans on another Plurk, please check it out and let me know your thoughts.

Every year since, there have been ceremonies at the three sites: World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA. At the World Trade Center site, they always read the names of the nearly 3000 people who died there. Often the names are read by relatives. It's very sobering.

As Hilda said, I'm glad your students don't have first hand experience with this. It is also sobering to realize that our freshmen this year were babies when that happened.