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Thread #51807   Message #790970
Posted By: GUEST,Taliesn
25-Sep-02 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Burns' Civil War waltz /Ashokan Farewell
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Burns' Civil War Waltz
Considering the power of this series and what it has meant to the further depth of definition of whom Americans have become, I would've been glad to have had this melody played as part of the commemoration observances and memorial ceremonies of the 9/11 attacks.

Perhaps this application of this most beautifully haunting melody will yet evolve in this vein in remembering those whom were "cut down" and what may "yet" occur due to the fuse set by the 21st century's equivilancy of "firing on Fort Sumter".

For better and worse it's obviously only just begun.