The Sounds of 9/11
Peggy Noonan writes about the sounds of September 11. For me, more than some of the images, the sounds I heard that day were burned deep into my subconscious. Even now, certain noises will trigger a reaction in me that I didn't think were there.
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I think too about the sounds that came from within the buildings and within the planes--the phone calls and messages left on answering machines, all the last things said to whoever was home and picked up the phone. They awe me, those messages. Something terrible had happened. Life was reduced to its essentials. Time was short. People said what counted, what mattered. |
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