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2002-09-11

My story isn't much but am glad to tell it. I am a Fire Captains wife and recieved a phone call from my husband as he sat at the fire station with his family of brothers in the fire dept. They were all very touched and very emotional by the things they heard and saw. I turned on the the TV and felt myself glued to it unable to turn it off. I felt tears that would not quit as my feelings for the survivors and those who died and how they must feel. It was a day with no words just feelings unable to describe. It was a time to take my daughter out and do fill the boot for the firefighters wives and families, and as we stood there with other fireman's wives and families the horns honking and the people stopping we couldn't get to the cars fast enough as they came all day long to put money in the fire boot to help the cause. We learned something that day and i had a hard time leaving as my husband took our 6 year old daughter home and kept coming back to get me to come home i felt i just couldn't it was my contribution to help. All the fireman out running in and out of cars and people emptying there ash trays and change purses into the boot my heart was just filled with a renewed faith in people and there love for others. Being a fireman's wife i felt for there families and as i watched on TV my heart broke and knew in someway how they must feel. The only comfort i can think would be they died for a cause and one they believed in and lived there lives to do there best. We can only be proud of all those who stepped up to the plate at an important time in life to try to make a difference at a critcal time in life. Many prayers have gone out since then and lots of hope for a brighter future. Today as i think back i am still full of those same feelings, tears come so easy today and the compassion for those who died and there families and those who lived and the feelings they have. I am greatful for a good country to live in. Many places face danger each day, each hour and minute and we are a good nation with lots of protection and thank the Heavens above we are not in understanding a mind that could do such a thing. Today as my 7 year old daughter woke and reminded me to put our flag out how my heart filled and my feelings deep as we put on our t-shirts with flags of our great United States and put our pins of the flag on and dressed in red, white and blue. As i drove and tried to remember as i went past the flags waving how proud i am to be an American. God Bless the USA and those who protect it. KHT from Orem, Utah