Mário Crespo, commentator for CNN Portugal, recalls September 11, 2001, a quarter of a century later. The journalist was at home when one of his children gave him the news that would change the world: a plane had fallen.
The moment was marked in Mário Crespo's memory as a profound shock. The way he received the information, through the words of a family member, proved particularly significant in how he processed that historic day.
Three decades of journalistic career allowed him to cover countless international events, but the images of that day remained etched in his memory in a differentiated way.
Crespo's reflection comes in the context of the commemoration of the 25 years since the terrorist attacks in the United States, when he reviews the circumstances under which he learned of the events that shook the world.
