
It's hard not to remember this day of infamy. It's crazy to think that 6 years ago that it happened. It's still one of those days that you remember so well. I remember waking up that morning and Mike leaving for work up at the University of Utah. I was getting ready, I think I was running a little late. As I'm trying to hurry Mike calls and yells turn on the T.V., I'm just thinking I have to get ready I can't be watching the news. Right as I turn the T.V. on I saw it, the second plane taking down the second World Trade Center building. I stood there in shock not knowing what was going to come of this madness. It was even crazier when I got to work. At the time I worked at East High School. The students, teachers and parents were all in shock as well. Some parents were freaking out and taking their kids out of school because they wanted to be together just in case something was to happen at school. I remember one crazy person so well that day. It was just as school was beginning, he was a totally skin head. He ran into the office screaming that he needed to get his girlfriend out of school so they could go hide in a bunker in the mountains until all of the madness blew over. I was thinking one who has a bunker in the mountains? Also I think terrorist will target some place bigger than East High School. Well he was so nutty that the Principal had to intervene telling the young man that he couldn't take his girlfriend out of school. Then he started screaming that he was the father of her child. Security was called and they escorted the guy out of the school. It's funny how that memory is still fresh in my head.
With all the madness surrounding that day, my ward at the time had planned a Relief Society retreat. It was in the mountains at one of the sisters cabin and while we were there not alot of people talked about what was going on with world. As we had our activity and enjoy each others company it felt like I was in a different world one of peace and calmness. Yet knowing that the feelings I was having there weren't going to last because they would be totally different when we got back home. I didn't want the retreat to end. When I got home Mike was watching T.V. just crying. I had never seen him cry like this before. He looked so sad. Almost like the innocence was taken from him of the world. I think that is how it was the innocence of the world was gone you always knew there were crazy bad guys in the world, I mean we all have seen James Bond flicks. But this was so surreal to hard to take in that something that you only see in movies actually happened. I kept thinking that day why would I want to have a baby and subject them to such violence and craziness of this world. But the peace I felt at that retreat help me know that yeah bad things happen but I know what is right and it will be ok. I'm sure glad I listened to those peaceful feelings. With in a week of the 9-11 tragedy our t.v. blew up so we didn't have a t.v. for like a month and half. As much as I wanted to know what was happening at that time seeing the news and hearing the stories, I'm sure glad that it did so that I could not be any more scared. I could just read about things in the paper and in Newsweek.
Even though I didn't know anyone that died in the tragedy, I still think about those people and the lives that were lost. I think I will always remember. This was the day that my innocence of the world was lost.
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