Alan Sparrow is co-owner of the Polk County News. Find his column, Alan’s Anecdotes, each week in the newspaper and online at www.polkcountynews.net.
It’s interesting how the big events in life are burned into our memories. I remember where I was when I heard that jets flew into the twin towers in New York. I was in gym class when my teacher told us about the space shuttle Challenger disaster. I remember another teacher’s reaction to when Pope John Paul II was shot many years before. I’ve heard others make similar comments about where they were…
