"Tower of Voices" offers stirring 9/11 tribute
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 11 September 2018
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9/11 calls us to remember the past and prepare for the future. This podcast explores ways crisis reveals character and encourages us to share the deliverance of God. For more news discerned differently, or to receive the Daily Article via email, please visit denisonforum.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article for Tuesday, September 11th, 2018. |
| 0:07.6 | The Tower of Voices is a Shanksville, Pennsylvania Monument, housing 40 wind chimes. According to the U.S. |
| 0:13.7 | National Park Service, quote, the intent is to create a set of 40 tones that can signify through |
| 0:19.1 | consonants, the serenity and nobility of the site, |
| 0:22.4 | while also through dissonance recalling the event that consecrated the site. |
| 0:27.1 | The event that consecrated the site was the crash of United Flight 93, 17 years ago. |
| 0:33.1 | The monument is 93 feet tall to commemorate the flight number. |
| 0:36.9 | The 40 wind chimes give voice to the 40 passengers and crew who died so heroically that day. |
| 0:42.7 | Park Superintendent Stephen Clark said, together their voices will ring out into perpetuity. |
| 0:49.6 | I did an internet search for 9-11 this morning and 269 million results appeared. 17 years later, |
| 0:56.3 | it's still difficult to find words appropriate to the horror of that day. Many years ago, |
| 1:01.0 | I stood beneath the Twin Towers and marveled at their magnificent height. It never occurred to me |
| 1:06.0 | that they could be destroyed. In some ways, it still seems surreal, the jets crashing into the towers in the |
| 1:12.3 | Pentagon, the flames, the mass destruction, the heroes of Flight 93 who caused the plane to crash |
| 1:18.4 | before it could attack the terrorist target, presumably the White House or Congress. We cannot prevent |
| 1:24.0 | all tragedies, of course, but we can prepare for them. |
| 1:32.3 | More than one million people face mandatory evacuation orders as Hurricane Florence nearest Category 5 strength this morning. |
| 1:34.7 | We're hoping for the best and preparing for the worst, said Maryland Governor Larry Hogan. |
| 1:39.6 | Christians need to do the same. |
| 1:41.8 | It's imperative that we begin praying now for those who are facing this |
| 1:45.4 | catastrophic storm and that we look for other ways to demonstrate God's love in our compassion. |
| 1:53.1 | Henry now and observed, the many disasters in our world and all the tragedies that happen to people |
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