Subj : Newsline Part 4
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Sep 16 2016 09:43 am
KICKER: A SEPT. 11 REMEMBRANCE
PAUL: Finally, we look at an annual ritual for one ham who understands -
as any radio operator might - that often the best tribute one can pay is
through audio, no matter how painful it might be to hear. Such is the case
with this year's 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Here's
Amateur Radio Newsline's Mike Askins, KE5CXP, with that story.
MIKE: The September 11 terror attacks of 2001, included the destruction of
New York City's Twin Towers, and nearly 3,000 lives in New York alone, on
that day.
An Air Force and Army veteran, and husband of an active Air Force member,
who is also a ham, Mark Lacy, W5TXR, turns part of his website over, each
year, to air some audio that is forever frozen in time. These are the
logging tapes of the calls that went out to New York City's emergency
responders on that day, as buildings collapsed, as people became trapped,
and as help arrived, sometimes to no avail. In many cases, the voices that
remain on these recordings belong to people who vanished forever.
The website also includes the FAA-NORAD audio featuring communications
between air traffic control, and the doomed airliners as the attacks
unfolded.
Mark told Amateur Radio Newsline recently that he shares the audio on his
website each year because QUOTE "I am a patriot. And I don't want people
to forget." ENDQUOTE
This is how things happened. Every year, we listen and we remember. Visit
www.w5txr.net and click on "historical audio archives" until the 25th of
September, and you can hear it too, thanks to Mark. It is unforgettable
which is, of course, the whole point. When we think collectively of that
single painful day, no, we can never forget.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.
(MARK LACY, W5TXR)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; Amateur Radio Europe;
CQ Magazine; Gizmodo; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; the IARU; Irish Radio
Transmitter Society; Mark Lacy, W5TXR; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ; Ohio
State Parks on the Air; Parker Pioneer Newspaper; PEI Lighthouse Society;
Radio Club of America; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO
Radio Show; Wireless Institute of Australia; Worcester Emergency
Communications Team; WTWW Shortwave; and you our listeners, that's all
from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Please send emails to our address at
[email protected]. More information is available at Amateur Radio
Newsline's only official website located at www.arnewsline.org.
For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and
our news team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso, Indiana,
saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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