"used2be" <used2be@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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"Gayle" <gayleco@rcn.com> wrote in message
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used2be wrote:
i know i'm a few days early...but this was moving to me...it's an
article
called, "I just called to say I love you."
I'm not sure one can be "a few days early" in terms of remembering 9/11,
but anyways ...
Frontline, on PBS, produced "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero" and I watch
the dvd a couple of times a year. If you go to:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/faith/
and click on 'video excerpts' and then click on 'From Act II: The Face
of
God', you'll see an interview with a Rabbi who uses those messages that
Peggy Noonan writes about in his daily prayers now. It will likely get
the
Stevie Wonder version out of your head. Not that I don't love Stevie,
too,
but the chanting of the voicemails is deeply profound. imo.
that was good stuff, gayle. i especially loved this part:
"A San Francisco husband slept through his wife's call from the World
Trade
Center. The tower was burning around her, and she was speaking on her
mobile
phone. She left her last message to him on the answering machine. A TV
station played it to us, while it showed the husband standing there
listening. Somehow, he was able to bear hearing it again. We heard her
tell
him through her sobbing that there was no escape for her. The building was
on fire and there was no way down the stairs. She was calling to say
goodbye. There was really only one thing for her to say, those three words
that all the terrible art, the worst pop songs and movies, the most
seductive lies, can somehow never cheapen. I love you.
She said it over and again before the line went dead. And that is what
they
were all saying down their phones, from the hijacked planes and the
burning
towers. There is only love, and then oblivion. Love was all they had to
set
against the hatred of their murderers."
what is 9 - 11
.
