Today a few fellow classmates and I attended the 9/11 memorial in Cedarhurst Park in Cedarhurst, New York. Speakers included Mayor J. Parise, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Bruce Blakeman, former Presiding Officer of the Nassau County Legislature and former Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Events also included short performances by the Lawrence School A cappella Choir as well as the Lawrence High School Philharmonic Orchestra. Katie Miller, a member of the choir, sang the National Anthem with a voice hat sounded professional. The choir sang “Amazing Grace” before the moment of silence, and sang “Wind Beneath My Wings” immediately after. The philharmonic played “Fanfare for the Common Man” during the conclusion of the event. The music definately matched the mood of the afternoon, and transmitted emotions in the way only music can. It’s no wonder that music of some sort, be it a lone trumpet or an entire orchestra, is seen as a must at every kind of memorial worldwide. The music made me feel both sad and endlessly patriotic and proud of the U.S. at the same time. In all areas of life, music is always seen as the best instrument for dissemination of emotion.  This is a brief video I took of the conclusion of the memorial, and of the orchestra playing “Fanfare for the Common Man”, the same song played during the Queens College 9/11 memorial on September 7.