{"id":3749,"date":"2011-09-10T08:46:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T14:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/paganportal\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2011-09-10T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T14:46:51","slug":"the-best-911-memorial-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/pantheon\/2011\/09\/the-best-911-memorial-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best 9\/11 Memorial Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>For once, Bono didn\u2019t annoy me. I watched and I cried. It was a ritual well done.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d forgotten about this until reminded by the good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/2011\/09\/10\/homily-for-september-11-2011-24th-sunday-in-ordinary-time\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Deacon Greg Kandra<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the banner were projected the names of all those who had died on 9\/11, just four months before.<\/p>\n<p>And  the music continued, and it went on, Bono and U2 singing about a place  \u201cwhere the streets have no name.\u201d And the banner kept growing, and the  list kept getting longer.\u00a0 It seemed like it would never end.\u00a0 Name  after name after name, like a visual litany of the lost.<\/p>\n<p>Then the  banner reached the roof of the Superdome.\u00a0 And it collapsed, rippling to  the floor.\u00a0 For a brief moment, we were back there, and it all was  happening again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember this memorial? Where the names rose and fell?<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zqtkik7nTik\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zqtkik7nTik<\/a>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For once, Bono didn\u2019t annoy me. I watched and I cried. It was a ritual well done. I\u2019d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[68,76,265,450,751,1107,1285,2711,1331,1816,1825,1941],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paganism","tag-2002-superbowl","tag-76","tag-bono","tag-death","tag-halftime-show","tag-memorial","tag-pagan","tag-paganism","tag-pentagon","tag-u2","tag-united-93","tag-world-trade-center"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Best 9\/11 Memorial Ever<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For once, Bono didn&#039;t annoy me. I watched and I cried. It was a ritual well done. 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