9/11 Commemoration

The commemorative video that I have chosen uses the song Shine Your Light by Robbie Robertson. This song was also used in the film Ladder 49 which tells the story of a group of firemen and the bonds that form between them.

This film does not focus on what happened after the attack, and the subsequent war on terror, rather it tells us the story of the firefighters who were involved in the rescue and those who lost their lives doing this. Photographs are used in this film, rather than video clips, and while this may not initially seem to have such an impact on us, it does have the effect of making us stop for a minute or two to think about the individual people who are in the pictures, and how their lives were changed.

This video remembers 9/11 as a tragic day in history, a day that changed millions of lives around the world.