In the Shadow of the Towers

I’ve spent more than a week compiling our reader response to a request for twin towers memories. Lon Gibby, pres ident and CEO of Gibby Media Group Inc . in Spokane Valley, sent me a videotape response which he compiled that shows the World Trade Center — before and after.

Here’s the explainer:

I have been to the World Trade Center many times over the years on business to  NY.  On one of those occasions  my company was  shooting  a news  TV program downstairs in the lobby for a period of  three days. During that time I had the opportunity to shoot some footage up on the roof , and in  many locations within those towers,  inside and out with lots of  people in motion. The day 911 hit I was stunned like everyone else.  I sat outside on our porch and played my guitar to try to calm myself.  The chords to this piece that came to me at that time  was based on the feeling  I felt that day,  as I thought about the people and places I had been within that building. I recorded the song and edited  this video within  a week of the event in 2001. I did it  back then  for personal  therapy. I have decided to share it,  on this 10- year anniversary with family friends and business associates, to pay tribute to this day in history remember the  innocent  people who died working  in these structures. It is like a freeze frame in time for me.

Thanks Lon, for your creativity!

Watch it here.