Peace movement, political rock music, student revolt, emancipation of women, unofficial demonstrations and sit-ins, to which time do these words associate? For many people they are connected with the year of 1968 and for some they have a magical glimmer. To others these words stand for a time of depravity where conventions and traditions no longer were accepted. No matter what picture one chose to identify with, we could agree on the fact that 1968 was a time of changes and in many ways radical. The purpose of this paper is to compare the historical writing of the 1968 movement with the stories the participants today tells of that time. What do these two pictures have in common and in what way do they differ? With different theories of how people remember and how the remembrance is related to the history this paper will test whether it is possible to applicate the theories on the interviews in this work and the official historical writing of 1968. What do the interviewees emphasize as the motive force in their commitment will be discussed but not their rightness in acts and thoughts. The purpose is not to establish any truths.