Remembrance

In every life, there are pivotal moments that help define a person, a country, a world. This week, the US and the world commemorated the 25th anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001. I was only a mile and a half away from the World Trade Center, up Fifth Ave. I could see much of it straight down the Ave — and worse, could hear the entire city scream when the towers came down. That sound will remain in my bones until I breathe no more. Today, in my small way, I honor the people whose lives were lost during the event, the first responders who waded in to a nightmare, and all the people whose health was made more fragile by the air in those first weeks. I don’t have it in me to play live today, but have instead assembled a program from the RadioSpiral library. Loneward: “Mellow Solace” (Pallid Memories) Mirada: “Truth in the Face of Adversity” (Unfolding Memories) Jack Hertz: “Memories of Silence” (Mechanics of Blue) Joe Frawley: “Sketches from Memory” (The Silent Ballet Volume 9) Lucette Bourdin and Phillip Wilkerson: “Part Memory, Part Distance” (Coast to Coast) Gregg Plummer: “Remember This Place” (Remember This Place) ontol: “What the Sky Remembered” (What the Sky Remembered) James Shain: “Flashes [Ever Remember]” (Windowless Journey) Altus: “Fade Though You Remember” (City of Ashes) Thom Brennan: “A Place to Remember” (Vista)