Singer/songwriter and NYC resident Suzanne Vega wrote “Anniversary” when thinking back on the first year anniversary following the 9/11 event.
Anniversary
Fall and all attendant memories
Crowd the day with unrelated histories
Each year leaves its unresolving fantasies
To hang around each corner
Hang around each street.
Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitries
Carrying words as strangers exchange pleasantries
Do they intrude upon your private reveries
As they meet you on each corner
Meet you on each street.
Watch for daily braveries
Notice newfound courtesies
Finger sudden legacies
As they clean up every corner
Wash down every street.
Mark the month and all its anniversaries
Put away the draft of all your eulogies
Clear the way for all your private memories
As they meet you on each corner
Meet you on every street.
Make the time for all your possibilities.
They live on every street.
9/11 in art:
Photographer Captures Tributes in Murals, Tattoos, Graffiti
BY: MIKE FRITZ PBS News Hour
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Very interesting. Thanks for posting it.
Program: PBS NewsHour
Episode: Around U.S. and World, Victims of 9/11 Commemorated on 10th Anniversary
Sunday was filled with solemn ceremonies in New York City, Shanksville, Pa., at the Pentagon and elsewhere in the world to celebrate the lives of the people who were killed in the terrorist attacks 10 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001. The NewsHour team reports on the how the 9/11 anniversary was commemorated.
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