I remember...

I was about 5 months pregnant with Brady, in fact we just found we were having a boy.  I was sitting in our apartment in Provo eating breakfast, getting ready for work, watching the early news when they showed smoke coming from the top of one of the Twin Towers.  I have always felt a connection to New York City.  So much so that I worked all of college to get into the internship program that would allow me to work at NBC in Rockefeller Center for a few months in 1997.  So I sat mesmerized watching what they were calling a small plane crash at one of New York's most recognizable symbols..  As the Today Show started and the footage continued I kept watching although I was going to be late for work.  And then I saw with my own eyes the second plane hitting the second tower and I realized that this was big.  I hurried to wake up Brock and couldn't believe I was telling him that airplanes were attacking the World Trade Towers.  We sat in stunned silence and watched as the pieces started coming together about the hijacked planes and wondering what was going to happen next.  I was over an hour late, so I finally got in my car and drove the 45 miles to work, listening to the radio when the third plane hit the Pentagon.  By the time, I got to work the first tower had collapsed and the 4th plane had just crashed.  I remember being scared at not knowing when this would end.  And of course I felt very sad.  I loved New York and I went to high school in the Washington DC area so now two of my favorite cities were under attack.  Of course no one was actually working that day, so we sat in a conference room at FranklinCovey and watched the news.  I was watching live as the second tower fell and I gasped and cried with my coworkers.  It is a day that I will never forget and for some reason I wanted to write it down today.  8 years later and I can still feel the adrenaline of watching those live images.  I still feel very sad for the people that were killed and for their families.  I still feel angry at those that choose to attack us.  And I will always feel proud of our country.  How we came together and fought back to defend our freedoms and the freedoms of those that cannot fight for themselves.  God Bless America.