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- Justin Grotelueschen
- Username: jgwzbc
- Location: Boston, MA
- Joined PRX: Mar 23, 2004
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- "We Were On Duty"
- Summary: An oral history of the survivors of the September 11th attack on the Pentagon
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Review of We Were On Duty
Justin Grotelueschen
Posted on September 11, 2005 at 01:43 PM
First off, before I speak about the content, I like most of the production quality here. The draw of this piece is the underexposed voices of those victims in the Pentagon phase of the terrorist attack, and hearing what that morning was like and how they are dealing wtih it. That said, in listening to this piece, notably produced before the Iraq started about seven months later, the voices contained within give me a bit of the shivers, partly because the multiple Christian voices here remind me of many people with views that I don't agree with. While that is painful, it's always interesting to hear the other perspective. The piece ends on kind of a rah-rah U.S.A. note, which I don't care for either, but this piece is driven by the voices of the people who were there, and these were the people who were there. Overall a good flow and production, featuring compelling voices, albeit voices that I'm not entirely comfortable with.