SEPTEMBER 11th 2001

I will never forget exactly where I was when I first heard the news that an airplane had flown into the towers . That terrible feeling of utter shock,unbelief and anger.
We had some of 'The Lost Boys of Sudan' come and spend an evening with our ward in Orem about a year after the attack. 27,000 boys were displaced or orphaned after the Second Sudanese Civil War. The people of Sudan were made up of two religious groups, the Muslims in the north and the Christians in the south.
They told us of their persecution by the Muslims. Many of them were only 6 or 7 years old when they fled their homeland, surviving only because they were out in the mountains herding the cattle or they were able to escape into the jungle.
The girls were either, raped , murdered or adopted into other families to be servants.
They made epic journeys on foot , these little boys walking for years, escaping attacks from wild animals, disease, hunger,thirst , dangers of civil war . Eventually reaching refugee camps in Ethiopia or Kenya . America once again came to the aid of those who were less fortunate,those who were destitute. America took many of the 'Boys of Sudan ' in.
One of them told us that evening that they had barely arrived in America when the twin towers were hit. They believed , he said that the Muslims who had taken the lives of their parents and families ,who had caused them such hardship had followed them to America . They thought that they were the cause for the Twin Towers being attacked. We reassured them that that was not the case.
BUT what was the reason for the attack? What was the explanation ? Why? The price of Freedom? Who decides on the price?

No we will never forget!