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Brilliant_Rock
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A day or two after 9/11, I was driving and Ray Charles's "America the Beautiful" came on the radio. I had to pull over, I was crying so hard. It wasn't the version we dutifully sang in grade school - it begins:
Oh beautiful, for heroes proved
In liberating strife
Who loved their country more than self
And mercy more than life
I couldn't stop thinking of the first responders, who went into the towers to try to save people and never came out. I still get misty when I hear it.
Oh beautiful, for heroes proved
In liberating strife
Who loved their country more than self
And mercy more than life
I couldn't stop thinking of the first responders, who went into the towers to try to save people and never came out. I still get misty when I hear it.
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