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9-11 Five Year Anniversary
Cover Story, Original Broadcast Date: September 8, 2006 (Show #1002):
For thousands of visitors, the place that symbolizes the courage and kinship that put New York back together after 9-11 is St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel. Once in the shadow of the towers, it served as a 24-hour-a-day command center and sanctuary for firemen, rescue and construction workers for months following the tragedy. And now, five years later, the chapel continues to comfort hundreds each day. Lucky Severson looks at how this sacred place provides hope and healing for visitors commemorating the victims of September 11. "It appears that our higher power had a place, had a mission for this institution," observers Reverend Stuart Hoke with St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel. "There is no shrine. There is no memorial at Ground Zero. This, ipso facto, has become the holy place. Many come as pilgrims. . . . They sit down in the pews and then they weep. And they pay their respects to the blessed dead and they mourn their losses, whatever those losses are."
Featured (in alphabetical order):
Linda Balling, Resident, California
Sam Cheek, Resident, South Carolina
Christopher Glenn, Resident, Washington
Reverend Stuart Hoke, Pastor, St. Paul's Chapel
Maxine Laboy, Tour Guide
Seamus Reynolds, Resident, Ireland
Steve Zeitlin, Executive Director, City Lore
For thousands of visitors, the place that symbolizes the courage and kinship that put New York back together after 9-11 is St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel. Once in the shadow of the towers, it served as a 24-hour-a-day command center and sanctuary for firemen, rescue and construction workers for months following the tragedy. And now, five years later, the chapel continues to comfort hundreds each day. Lucky Severson looks at how this sacred place provides hope and healing for visitors commemorating the victims of September 11. "It appears that our higher power had a place, had a mission for this institution," observers Reverend Stuart Hoke with St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel. "There is no shrine. There is no memorial at Ground Zero. This, ipso facto, has become the holy place. Many come as pilgrims. . . . They sit down in the pews and then they weep. And they pay their respects to the blessed dead and they mourn their losses, whatever those losses are."
Featured (in alphabetical order):
Linda Balling, Resident, California
Sam Cheek, Resident, South Carolina
Christopher Glenn, Resident, Washington
Reverend Stuart Hoke, Pastor, St. Paul's Chapel
Maxine Laboy, Tour Guide
Seamus Reynolds, Resident, Ireland
Steve Zeitlin, Executive Director, City Lore