How Do You Honor a Lost Loved One on 9/11?
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Listeners, we have one more 9-11 related segment to do before we turn the page, and that's |
| 0:05.4 | a call in. |
| 0:07.2 | And that is to let you call us up and go in the radio to tell people what you do to honor |
| 0:13.6 | those who lost their lives on 9-11, 22 years ago, 2-1-2-4-3-3-WNYC, 2-1-2-4-3-3-9692. |
| 0:25.8 | As a city, there are quite a few rituals that we perform on this day each year. |
| 0:30.9 | If you were listening to the show earlier, you heard the moments of silence at the times, |
| 0:36.1 | the towers collapsed and other key moments from that day. |
| 0:40.0 | The 9-11 Memorial and Museum has been holding its annual remembrance ceremony that includes |
| 0:45.8 | those moments of silence and also the reading of the names of the victims from that day |
| 0:52.8 | being read aloud. |
| 0:55.0 | But there are other things that people do. |
| 0:57.4 | Things that might just be personal to you that are not part of any public ceremony at all |
| 1:01.8 | that you do in honor of someone who has lost that day or anything else you do as an |
| 1:07.6 | act of service that you may have been inspired to do because of 9-11. |
| 1:12.1 | And that's what we want to open up the phones to let you say out loud right now. |
| 1:17.3 | Do you have any personal ritual or do you partake in any public ritual? |
| 1:23.9 | And that honors the losses of 9-11 or the spirit of the United States of America that |
| 1:30.9 | we hope fourth comes from 9-11, 22 years ago today, 2-1-2-4-3-3-WNYC, 2-1-2-4-3-3-9-6-9-2. |
| 1:44.4 | Maybe you just visit somebody's grave or dedicated shrine. |
| 1:49.8 | Maybe you attend a religious service for an individual victim or the victims writ large |
| 1:55.7 | of 9-11. |
| 1:56.7 | Maybe you eat their favorite meal or donate to a cause that your loved one cared about. |
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