9/11 song: “Welcome to the Boneyard”
Posted on 11. Sep, 2009 by debra in Causes, Music, Uncategorized
In honor of those who died on 9/11 and those battling 9/11-related illnesses, here’s a free download of the Devi song “Welcome to the Boneyard” and an important video from George Tabb, one of many Ground Zero volunteers and recovery workers with severely compromised health.
The morning of 9/11/2001, I was heading out the door of my Hoboken apartment to meet a friend when I flipped on the radio and heard that a bomb had gone off at the World Trade Center. I came back inside and turned on the TV. I watched in shock as smoke poured out of the north tower, thinking this was some terrible accident…then I saw the second plane ram into the south tower. When the north tower imploded and crumbled into a cloud of dust, I ran outside, jumped onto my bike and rode to the riverfront, with some vague idea of praying for the people who had just been immolated. By the time I got there, I saw not one, but two massive white clouds across the river. The south tower had just fallen, too. A young Indian man standing next to me said “my aunt and uncle work in that tower.”
As supersonic fighter jets streaked across the sky over Hoboken, I realized my cell phone service was gone…because the cell phone towers had been on top of the WTC.
When the WTC PATH station finally re-opened and I took my first ride on it into the city, the tunnel opened right into the basin of Ground Zero. Workers were still finding bone fragments and I could see the great concrete walls of the buildings’ foundation, and the enormous rusty screws and bolts that had once tethered the foundation cables. All I could think, as tears ran down my face, was “welcome to the boneyard.”
