Comments on: September 11th: a remembrance

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:25:31 +0000

I couldn’t sleep the night before. I kept telling my wife that I was very troubled, something was wrong, but it wasn’t physical but somehow my spirit was in pain. I told my wife I felt an evil that made it hard for me to breath. I stayed awake all night the night before wondering what the dread was that I felt. I actually began to cry. I’ll never forget the loving hug my wife gave me and told me that everything would be alright. She went out of the bedroom to let me try to get to sleep (have you ever tried to sleep? It’s futile.) Just as I fell asleep, my wife came into the bedroom and told me the towers had been hit. Something clicked for me. I felt a dread and somehow sensed that life as we knew it had changed forever.

By: Kristen J

Kristen J — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:38:11 +0000

Geoff was teaching early morning seminary at that time and I was very pregnant with my 3rd child. Geoff had been listening to the radio on the way to seminary so he called me on his cell phone. I was freaked out by getting a call from someone at 5:45 in the morning. I just sat in front of the tv and cried all day.

Now today I’ve been watching a few documentaries on that day. What has really struck me is how horrible this day still is for everyone but especially for those who have lost loved ones.

By: Jacob J

Jacob J — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:08:48 +0000

It is always interesting to hear what other people were doing on fateful days like 9/11. Being on a mission without a TV would have been frustrating for me.

By: Susan M

Susan M — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:21:53 +0000

I remember waking up the morning after, turning off the alarm, and feeling like something was wrong, but not recalling exactly what. It took me about two steps away from the bed before I remembered the world as I knew it was forever changed.

I felt guilty, standing in our bathroom, looking at a towel hanging on a rack, that I’d slept in a nice warm bed that night, while there were still thousands of people trapped under all that rubble. No one had realized yet that very few people would be pulled alive from the wreckage.