The Best 9/11 Memorial Ever

The Best 9/11 Memorial Ever September 10, 2011

For once, Bono didn’t annoy me. I watched and I cried. It was a ritual well done.

I’d forgotten about this until reminded by the good Deacon Greg Kandra:

On the banner were projected the names of all those who had died on 9/11, just four months before.

And the music continued, and it went on, Bono and U2 singing about a place “where the streets have no name.” And the banner kept growing, and the list kept getting longer.  It seemed like it would never end.  Name after name after name, like a visual litany of the lost.

Then the banner reached the roof of the Superdome.  And it collapsed, rippling to the floor.  For a brief moment, we were back there, and it all was happening again.

Remember this memorial? Where the names rose and fell?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqtkik7nTik

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