A Music Video Which Has Nothing to Do with 9/11, And Yet...

Jim McDermottSeptember 09, 2011

This music video is floating through the byways of Facebook these days. It has absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, nothing, but something of the spirit of it captures my own hopes for our world 10 years later.

(And if you need yet another 9/11 piece to read, I wrote this for Eureka Street.)

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