SMILE #255 9/11 -The Day our Nation Became Stronger

Where was I on that most horrific day?  I remember getting out of 1st period, my senior year of high school.  I actually didn't have a 1st period, so I was studying in a teachers office.  I remember getting out, and going to my locker, and everyone going crazy talking about how 2 planes crashed into the Twin Towers.  I was kind of confused, I knew what the Twin Towers were, but at the time could not remember.  I then remember hearing that a 3rd plane crashed into the Pentagon.  I was even more confused, because I didn't know what the Pentagon was!........Guess that show's how well I listened in class!

But I remember the feelings I had, when I actually saw the news feed on the T.V.!!!  I was completely shocked!  I remember feeling so scared, and crying for those who were running away from that huge plume of white smoke and debris, and then those firefighters and survivors walking OUT of that same plume.  I was glued to the T.V. for the rest of the day.

It was a very sad day, for so many people, that you wonder how can anyone smile about that?  Well, I have learned and seen so much good come out of that one day when in reality someone was trying to ruin our nation.  I remember reading my scriptures later, and reading a passage in the Book Of Mormon, and realizing that it talks about through trials, nations will become one!  Boy, did that ever happen!  All religions became one that day, there was now hatred towards another of a different race, color, ethnicity, ect.!  We became ONE!  We became stronger.

I smile, because last night I started reading a book, about a man who survived from the pentagon disaster.  His attitude was a great one, and loved that he knew that because he was saved from the awful day, he knew he needed to be that someone who God intended him to be.  He was saved for a reason, and he realized he needed to fulfill that.

Trials come and go in our lives, and it's all up to us how to deal with them.  We can let it get us down, and depressed, or we can walk out of that "Plume of smoke and debris" with our heads up high, and know that we will become stronger because of it!

Why do you smile about this day, the day when our Nation became stronger?