(Para.2) But it is not just the historical and international dimension that made 9/11 an event to remember. It was the shock and horror too. So striking, so remarkable, was the news that, years after the event, many people can still remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they first heard it. They can remember their own reactions: For many people across the globe their first instinct was to go and tell someone else about it, thus proving the old saying that bad news travels fast.