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9/12

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4.1 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

9/11 & Memorial: A high schooler in Ohio, not yet even born on 9/11, takes it upon himself to make sure his town Never Forgets. Now, 20 years later, what about 9/11 is worth remembering and how should we memorialize it?

"What a Diff’rence A Day Makes” performed by Dinah Washington, written by Maria Grever & Stanley Adams. Courtesy of Verve Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to 912 Add Free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:07.1	I'm going deep into my wife's family history digging up the cold case of her murdered great-grandmother
0:12.9	And did I mention that I'm looking into whether the murderer was actually the beloved family patriarch?
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0:27.5	Episode 7
0:29.2	Ash Wednesday
0:49.8	Allow me to translate. I promise that we will take part in these Olympic games in the true spirit of sportsmanship
0:59.4	This is the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games held in Tokyo, but not the ones held this year
1:07.7	These are from the first Tokyo Olympics held in 1964
1:20.1	The final runner in the Olympic Torch relay has just entered the stadium
1:25.4	All in muscle all in white you runs with torch in hand and a thin line of smoke trailing behind
1:33.6	And with all eyes on him he begins the long careful jog of the endless stairs to reach the Olympic cauldron
1:42.3	The runner is Sakai Yoshinori. Sakai was born in Hiroshima 19 years earlier on the very day that the United States dropped a bomb on the city
1:53.0	As approximately 144,000 civilians died, Sakai Yoshinori was born and he survived
2:04.1	It is a long journey to the top but thrilling when he gets there and lights the cauldron
2:17.0	Nothing more was made of Hiroshima or Nagasaki in those ceremonies
2:21.8	But despite how unassuming a memorial it is, it's pretty powerful to watch
2:26.6	Maybe when the loss is so big the collective trauma so thick
2:30.7	Only simplicity can cut through it
2:38.4	Moments after Sakai Yoshinori lights the cauldron 8,000 pigeons are released into the stadium
2:45.2	They do not cooperate with the magnitude of the moment
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