Writing about experience in a time and place of importance

The following video poem (embedded below), which has been called Anonymous Poem From Iran, starts off:

[A camera looks out into a dark urban neighbourhood. A scattered cacophony of voices call out from surrounding buildings and continue throughout the video. A woman's voice speaks:]

Friday the 19th of June 2009
Tomorrow, Saturday
Tomorrow is a day of destiny
Tonight, the cries of Allah-o Akbar
are heard louder and louder than the nights before
Where is this place?
Where is this place where every door is closed?
Where is this place where people are simply calling God?
Where is this place where the sounds of Allah-o Akbar gets louder and louder?

Choose a time and place of major importance to your character (and possibly of real life importance to readers) and situate your character in the middle of this and have them tell of their experience of being at that place at that time.