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2003-09-11

I was in Nicaragua on an LDS mission, and I can remember that I was getting ready to go home to the USA in about a month and a half. I was getting very excited to go home to Utah. I could also remember that I had stayed awake the majority of the night before, due to a baby that had been crying almost the entire night. That didn't make the morning very easy for me. However, after finishing a meeting in the morning, I went with three other missionaries to a restaurant in Juigalpa at about noon, and while we were waiting for our food, I happened to see the big screen TV tuned to CNN, and I saw the news caption that read "EEUU bajo ataque". Then, I saw the awful sight of the twin towers collapsing after the planes had collided with them. At first I thought that it was just a bomb, but then I had learned that two planes had collided with the towers, and it was the most awful sight I had seen. After that, I began thinking about the dangerous circumstances I'd be returning to. I started to worry that it would be such an emergency that the draft would be reinstated, and that the young men of the country would be called out to war. After that, however, I started thinking about how the family members of the victims would be feeling, and then I felt like the position of the US was being questioned. Many thoughts went through my head that awful day, but one thing was absolutely certain: it was the most awful thing I've ever seen in my life, and I saw it from a completely different country.