September 11, 2001

9/11 is a difficult day for me. I'm not sure why I get so emotional about it, every year, having been thousands of miles away from the Twin Towers the day they fell. It's just that the horror was real for me then; the disbelief, even, was real.








And still, when I see a picture that was taken, or read an article about the victims of 9/11, I cry. Because they were acted upon. And the heroes, they acted, out of love.





Ground Zero. It rained there yesterday, unlike the blue skies of the broken New York City skyline six years ago.






I hope we will remember the fallen, each of whom is represented here by our flag. And I hope we will remember that ours is still a great nation.




Note: These pictures are from the New York Times.

Comments

jackie e said…
thank you kim. everytime someone mentions 9/11 i can picture exactly where i was when i heard what was happening. i didn't lose anyone but because of that my brother was in iraq with the marines and it was scary. thanks again for your tribute.
cool blog by the way. i love it when there are updates. i'm glad we reconnected.
September 12, 2007 at 9:23 AM
ecuakim said…
In response to Jackie's question on her blog, this is about where I was that day: I had early morning classes in the JKHB, and didn't hear about it until my second class. I walked in at 9am and a girl in the front looked at me and said, "They've bombed the World Trade Center." She must've known that I had no idea about any of it...everyone who knew looked somber. Then our teacher came in and we discussed it for the whole class, and then after that, classes were canceled. Rough day. Remember Matt Sanders? I watched the footage with him in Bro. J's (in our bishopbric, I could never spell his name...) office upstairs and tried to call my mom in Germany. I knew that my dad was somewhere near Washington D.C. on business, and that was scary.
September 13, 2007 at 9:36 PM
Pace & Gwen said…
Our's IS a great nation, Kimmie. Your post is moving, thanks or doing it. I think I'll always remember where I was and the absolute horror, shock, anger all the series of emotions felt that day. Still is amazing to me - the audacity... Horrible thing.
September 14, 2007 at 7:58 AM
Pace & Gwen said…
Kimmie, what's your email? I want to send you something... I could call you, though huh? :) K or Call me
September 14, 2007 at 8:15 PM
Jenny said…
Kim, as you'll find in my respone on Jackie' blog...

I was in the MTC in Brazil. Our district was at the Temple, and the only American district not actually in the MTC when the MTC president got word. We got back to the MTC and our Brazilian roommates tried to explain that there was a bomb in the United States--even after only being there for 2 weeks it was unmistakable that she was explaining something blew up in the United States. We rushed into a classroom where they explained what had happened. I honestly don't know that I have ever felt so isolated and helpless in my whole entire life. There was no mail in or out of the country for a long time, and no way to contact anybody. And for 2 more weeks nobody even came into the MTC from the U.S. since all airplanes were stopped from the U.S. I was just so grateful for the higher peace that came from the Lord, in a time when everything was so surreal and scary.
September 17, 2007 at 8:01 PM
JS said…
Kim, I remember you were at class, and your brother called us (shell and I) and woke us up, and told us that all the airports had been closed. It was weird. Yea, I was shocked, but Kim I remember you would just sit on the couch and watch the news.

I also went to the devotional that day and Pres. Bateman gave a pretty good spontaneous devotional. Did you go to that?
September 19, 2007 at 7:37 AM
Pace & Gwen said…
Kimmie... :) I tagged you!! Ha Ha! How are things going??
September 26, 2007 at 9:17 AM
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