Just thought I'd inform you that someone who turns 21 this year...

[Kablooie]

doesn't remember 9/11.
They would have been 3 years old.

Enjoy your Geritol while you can, you old geezers.

[SHRED]

1. LOL

I vaguely remember the late 1950's.

[YOHABLO]

2. I can remember events when I was 2 years old. So no excuse for 3 year olds.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Perhaps just barely.

It would depend on the individual.

I was born in 1948. I have a memory of asking my mother, as a very young child, if the war was still going on. As I recall she sighed and said yes. Later, looking back on that memory, I know I was asking about WWII, but she was replying about the Korean War.

For what it's worth that's my earliest political memory. We lived in New York State and I recall my parents happily voting for Nelson Rockefeller.

And I recall them voting with even more enthusiasm for JFK. We were Irish Catholics. All four of my grandparents, meaning my own parents' parents, had immigrated from Ireland, and so there was a very strong connection. And while the surnames Kennedy and Fitzgerald do not show up on my family tree, there's a particular photograph of a young Ted Kennedy that looks a lot like one of my brothers at that age. So we probably are related, although why bother to do the research to establish it?

[Kablooie]

4. I contend that at 3 you may have memories but they are of personal events, not news.

I have memories from being 2 but they were of family and people I knew.
At that age you are learning from what's right in front of you, not about distant events that affect other people.
But granted, some might have memories of their parents reaction to 9/11.

But anyone who turns 18 this year won't have any memories at all.
9/11 is slowly being moved into the ancient history category even though a lot of issues we have today stem from that event.

[ProudLib72]

5. Time keeps on slippin' slippin' into the future