Francine Sorensen, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Frances Merrill, April 14, 2004

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FRAN IN OREN EN pri114 2004 FHM: How did you fe 1 about 9-11? F : Once again it s just total disbelief. We've become accustomed to watching th big cataclysmic things in movies and T.V. shows so it hardly seemed real. I kept expecting them to say this is just a T.V. show, or something. It was very hard to grasp that it was a real event that we were really being attacked in our own country. And I can remember feeling a great sense of loss of innocence. You know, that there wouldn't be that same feeling ever again that we were safe in our own country, that we could be attacked like that in our own land. FHM: This concludes our interview. I'm going to ask if there's anything else that you would like to add on any subject that we have not covered in this interview? Possibly advice for future generations? FS: Well, I did want to make one note. I thought, as we were talking about the changes in technology, when I started as a disbursing clerk I had a very large, noisy, calculator on my desk that was probably the size of a typewriter. And now we have little paper thin handheld calculators. And that's the difference since that time. Our calculators were very noisy, and very cumbersome. And that was the equipment we had to do our calculations on. And I thought, the changes in technology have just been tremendous. And my advice to any future generations would be always be proud of our country, proud of any opportunity that you are given to show your respect, and your ability and willingness to serve our country. We have a great country, and I don't think we realize quite what we do have. We take it for granted, and we shouldn't. It can be taken away from us if we become too complacent. But it's always, always our duty, and opportunity, and even a blessing to serve our 18