And not being able to nail down the date, not 'what you had for breakfast that day'.
Everyone remembers where they were when 9/11 started going down, and obviously they know the date.
It may be the case that there's legit science about how sometimes people block out details of very painful memories ... but ... most people ... either aren't aware of that, or don't really believe it, or have personal evidence to the contrary, or can't see how an experience of an adolescent girl having a similar aged-boy ripping at their clothing, then covering their mouth, but then getting 'tackled off' of them ... without anything 'worse' occurring ... at which point they walked away ... constitutes an incident of such disabling severity ... that they've then suffered a blackout on nearly all the details surrounding the incident.
The bottom-line when it comes to this argument is that most people actually remember the most traumatic things that ever happened to them ... with UNUSUAL clarity, rather than the opposite. And that's why her lack of being able to fill in many details ... is felt to be 'undermining' by a lot of Americans.
Personally I believe her, because I don't claim to know how impactful or traumatic any particular event might be to any given individual, and I found her testimony very heartful and credible anyway, plus she has no reason to lie either.
But there's a LOT of people in this country that will look upon the inability to fill in details as a 'sign' ... that what happened to Doctor Ford was more like September 10, 2001 ... than September 11, 2001. To use your analogy, as it were.
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