Healing at Mountain Meadow: Mormonisms other 9/11
It really was September 11th in 1857 when a California-bound wagon train crossing Southwestern Utah was attacked by Mormon militiamen, killing approximately 120 men, women, and children, most from Arkansas. Some of the details are discussed in this audio interview in excerpts from a ceremony held on September 11, 2011 on the same ground, marking the declaration of this burial spot a National Historic Landmark.
It has taken 154 years, but signs of healing and reconciliation between the descendants of the perpetrators as well as those of the 17 young survivors, is a tangible work in progress. In the commemoration conducted by Assistant Church Historian and Recorder Richard E. Turley, Jr, there are remarks from Elder Marlin K. Jensen of the First Quorum of the Seventy, Church Historian, and representatives of the groups of survivor descendants.
You’ll also hear about a remarkable set of quilts which have literally brought pieces together representing all the stakeholders into a hands-on memorial of remembrance and forgiveness.
