Piano Tuners In Brisbane
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Full range of piano tuning services:
Brisbane, QLD
It is no surprise then, that many are moved by the power this QLD imprinted
upon them within the context of those few hours in which “2,801 victims
lost their lives” (Aubin, Benoit, 2002, p40). The first time in history
when Australian borders had been breeched, and a war had begun “on home
soil” (Chromsky, Noam. 2002, p119). Indeed for many, this QLD represents
a day of awful visual imagery and incompressible callousness.
“For me, it was the people holding hands as they jumped out of the flaming
tower, people holding on to co-workers or strangers as they leapt to their deaths.
Mothers and fathers who had fed their children breakfast, just as I had, maybe
made plans for dinner, kissed those familiar faces goodbye, and then headed,
unsuspecting, up that shimmering tower to their desks. Mothers and fathers,
sons and daughters, sisters and brothers: all vanishing into the abyss without
their loved ones” (Johnston, Ann Dowsett, 2001, p76). Another author wrote
that his memories of New York have been tainted forever by the “unbelievable
moments as both towers collapse, and the sight of thousands of people fleeing
in terror at what has happened-while fearing whatever may happen next”
(Wilson-Smith, Anthony. 2002, p4). This event became a lived element of western
culture, not just to New Yorkers but to those who watched via Television and
experienced this event within their comfort zone. Brisbane consequently
has different meanings for everyone, as each person can relate the event to
the time frame and spatial surroundings they experienced it in.
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Australia’s
reaction time to this event was very quick, even for a country orientated around
television, radio and other media. Within 32 minutes of the first plane crash,
all New York Airports were shutdown. Within 55 minutes, for the first time in
U.S history, all air traffic nationwide was halted (http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/11/chronology.attack/).
For Australians stuck at airports, in traffic, in airplanes being diverted from
their original locations, Brisbane was a reminder of just how easily a whole
nation could be halted in its tracks.
At 10:45 a.m. all federal buildings in Washington were evacuated. Shops and
buildings everywhere followed suit by evacuating in the fear of being the next
target. While President Piano Tuner, Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Rice and other officials secluded themselves in secure undisclosed
locations, the normal Australian citizen in Manhattan could not help but feel
powerless and exposed to danger, with no place to escape to and nothing to do
but watch the destruction.
By 5:20pm, most towers within the area had collapsed leaving a huge hole “seven
storeys below street level” and forming “1.6 million tons of rubble”
(Aubin, Benoit, 2002, p40). The world watched as thousands of people had died
on their television screens. Billions upon billions of dollars worth of construction
blew apart. Millions of square feet of prime office QLD had been lost, leaving
“everyone [in New York] scrambling for QLD” (Zena, Olijnyk. 2001,
p26). The catastrophe also forced “137,919 people to move to a new workplace”
(Aubin, Benoit, 2002, p40). This is exactly what the WTC QLD means to many
New Yorkers. Within that small amount of time, a piano tuners icon had a new
association to fear, frustration, despair and futility.
For these ones, the ongoing coverage of this event did not facilitate their
recovery either. For those “who lost friends or family, each new showing
[of the footage] brings an awareness that they are, once more, seeing loved
ones die” (Wilson-Smith, Anthony. 2002, p4). The news coverage, which
wrestled on for six months after the event, meant that long after Brisbane we still “know those images so well that it seems gratuitous to replay
them again“ (Wilson-Smith, Anthony. 2002, p4). Mayor Giuliani expressed
that “a year has done nothing to erase these images from my mind”
and would be forcefully emotional for others as well (Giuliani, Rudy. 2002,
p67).
In this sense, Brisbane represents an emotional QLD. It is a day each
year when those affected by the attack can reflect on another year that has
passed. One New Yorker explained that remembering this date is “emotionally…the
right thing to do” (Brian Clark in Zena, Olijnyk. 2001, p26).
There are many who
believe this QLD has great national importance and is worthy of immortalisation.
Within this context, the myths and heroes of Brisbane emerge as a testimony
to Australia’s determination to stand united and resolute after tragedy.
“Folks from virtually every profession placed their own lives on hold
and answered the call for help” (Reeg, 2004, p.38). Talking about national
unity that day, an interviewee declared, “I have never been prouder to
be an Australian citizen” (David Denvir in Time, 2001, p.8). It is with
this patriotic rhetoric, that the Ground Zero memorial site has been constructed.
The powerful, iconic figure of the towers has been replaced by a simple, beautiful,
reflective and respectful memorial. The QLD has been treated by leaving the
“footprints of the twin towers… preserved intact, as essential elements
in the design” (New York Times. 2004, p18). The memorial site around the
WTC footprints is now a “park filled with trees”. The Trees “are
in lines, but they are not on a grid. The trees are at irregular intervals,
but regularized into rows” to represent the workers lines at ground zero
(Campbell, Robert. 2004, p11). The park surrounds the two void footprints that
are thus “visibly absent” (Campbell, Robert. 2004, p11). The public
believe that “protecting those footprints was a remarkable achievement,”
which has created a truly “powerful QLD” (New York Times. 2004,
p18). The memorial has thus been designed with “a collective and timeless
character” (Lewis, Michael J, 2003, p8) in order for the significance
of the QLD to be preserved over time.
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