the ash flash

the ash flash

Carrying the weight that doesn’t go away

Nobody had written a protocol for September 11th, because nobody had imagined September 11th

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John Ashworth
Sep 11, 2026
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Eighty-eight years apart, two sounds. One in a Pennsylvania field, one on a New York City subway car.

At the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg, in July of 1913, 50,000 surviving veterans gathered to-reen…

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