Cell Phones Ringing (In the pockets of the Dead)
April 17th, 2007 by COD
This post over on The Agitator reminded me of a rather powerful Willie Nile song.
Just saw an interview with rescue workers on TV. They said the thing that keeps sticking with them is the sound of cell phones ringing on the bodies of the dead students they were carrying out–calls from desperate parents and friends frantically trying to reach them.
My review of the album this came from.
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I read something about this today in a CNN article, and it left me with a pit in my stomach. I wasn’t even there, and yet it’ll probably haunt me for days.
[...] The Virginia Tech massacre has been weighing heavy on my heart since Monday. I want to write and I don’t want to write about it. There really are no words that can express my anguish over what has happened there. I didn’t want to marr my blog with such macabre news. Worse, I didn’t know just how much this was affecting me until I read COD’s post about the cell phones ringing on the dead. I read his post just before bed last night, and I turned off the lights and layed there wide awake. I finally left my bed and went downstairs and sat on my sofa and cried. It was not until that moment that I expressed the true grief I have been feeling the last few days. I’ve posted vague references to my affiliation with Virginia Tech on other blogs, but nothing here. [...]