phone pic from last weekends rodeo
i have been frustrated by the media coverage swarming the september eleventh anniversary. it frustrates me that it takes a tsunami, a hurricane, or a terrorist attack to remind us that we are all in this together. in association with the september eleventh memorial museum, npr is producing a storycorps special recording survivors stories, usually memorializing their lost loved ones, that is worth all the media coverage it can get. their goal is to have a story recorded for every life lost on sepetember 11, 2001.
these intimate stories have a profound impact. last week i heard a fire captain father talking about both his sons who died in the attacks, a 34 year-old police officer and a 36 year-old fire fighter. one of his sons called him on 9/10 as he was headed to work, he told him he loved him before they hung up. the other son called just as the towers were hit, he told him he loved him before they hung up. the father- "not very many people can say that the last words they said to their son or daughter was 'i love you.'"
if your reading this, please know, i love you.
