At the theatre tonight the Savannah Philharmonic presented its 9/11 program.

Opened with Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man... a mixed honor guard unit of Savannah Chatham County Police, Fire and Sheriff's Dept. officers set the Colors as the piece ended... they left the stage to the beginning strains of Barber's "Adagio for Strings" Very few dry eyes.
But the program shifted to great American tunes with patriotic themes and ended with Sousa. The encore was a kick-a** version of "Stars and Stripes Forever".

We sold every single available ticket and could have sold hundreds more. We had as our guests over one hundred spouses of our deployed Ranger Battalion and Brig. Gen. Cucuolo, current Commander of the Third ID was a guest of honor.

Money was raised for our local chapter of the 200 Club, an organization whose objective is to provide immediate financial assistance to the surviving spouse and children of local law enforcement officers and firefighters who lose their lives in the line-of-duty while protecting our community.

No shortage of memory here.