August 28, 2011 01:04:00 PM
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Handel's "Largo" from Xerxes (orchestral)

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I was a volunteer nurse with the American Red Cross in NYC 9/13 - 10/13/2001. Sometime during that time this was played on the radio and it captured my sense of grief, majesty, beauty, horror, humility, honor,and soft heroism in which I was immersed then. Every time I hear it since, I am returned to that but with the added sense of awe and calm I found & continue to find in the people of NYC. I am returning for the 10th and will visit the Memorial on the 12th. No "closure", just continuance. "I am a New Yorker."

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Lucie Ferrell