The Wind In The Heights
Gerard van der Leun takes us from Washington falling back in the Battle of Long Island to Sept. 11 in his old neighborhood, Brooklyn Heights:
And I knew that all they had become had fallen upon us as we ran in the smoke; that we had breathed them in when the wind reached us; that they were covering the houses and the sills and the cars and the sidewalks and the benches and the shrubs and the trees all about us.
Go read it all here. Beautiful and terrible. Bit of a cleanser after the last couple of posts.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:44 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2007
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September 7th, 2007 at 2:44 am
Beautiful and poignant. It left me in tears. And angry.
September 7th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
It was heartbreaking. I note also that Sept. 11 falls on a Tuesday this year… just like that year.