Listen To 9/11 Memorial 'Tower of Voices' Use Its Wind Chimes To Blow Beautiful Tune
We all remember where we were the day a significant event in history occurred. My mom remembers where she was the day JFK was assassinated in 1963.
My dad remembers when a man first stepped foot on the moon in 1969, and I remember what I was doing during the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
I was in high school, getting ready for what I thought would be a normal day. I heard my mom shouting from the living room. When I saw the explosions happening on the TV screen I asked, “What movie are you watching?”
But this wasn’t the work of Spielberg. It was all too real, and from that day forward our country would never be the same.
We stood together as a nation and vowed to never forget the lives that were lost on 9/11. Now, 17 years later, we continue to honor the heroes and victims.
United Airlines Flight 93 is remembered for its 40 passengers and crew members — people who put others before themselves.
The site where the plane went down in Pennsylvania already pays homage to these 40 brave lives.
According to the National Park Service, an annual observance ceremony is held each year at the Flight 93 Memorial Plaza.
“A common field one day. A field of honor forever,” the wall at the plaza reads.
Now, an addition to the site has been rendered, set to be dedicated today, Sept. 9, 2018, just in time for the 17th anniversary of the day that fateful flight was taken to the ground.
Construction on the haunting “Tower of Voices,” designed by architect Paul Murdoch, began in 2017. Though it’s not quite finished, it will eventually house 40 wind chimes, one to represent each person on Flight 93 that day.
“The tower itself is quite heroic; it’s a monumental piece,” Murdoch told CBS News. “It’s meant to be heroic. But the sounds are not booming chimes. They’re meant to be actually quite subtle and intimate.”
The sample of the intended sound is just that, giving off notes that will leave you with chills. If it sounds like this over the speakers of my device, I can only imagine what it would sound like in person.
“Most importantly, when visitors walk away, I hope that they take with them a question,” Gordon Felt, brother of Flight 93 passenger Ed Felt, shared with CBS. “If it was me, could I have done what they did?”
An insightful question and one many of us have asked ourselves since that day. Our prayers and thoughts are with the families of those heroes as we approach another year in which we remember all that they sacrificed.
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