Radio Dial
For some reason, few material things evoke a person's life as poignantly as a pair of empty shoes.
At the Holocaust Museum in Washington, nothing stops you like a cart with thousands of pairs of shoes the methodical Germans collected from the Jews they were about to murder.
Tomorrow, radio station WAWZ (99.1 FM) will evoke that same haunted spirit for the victims of Sept. 11. Star-99 will place 2,974 small American flags in a field in Zarephath, N.J., one for every life lost on Sept. 11, 2001, and next to each will be a pair of empty shoes.
People are invited to come by the field, which is next to the Somerset Christian Academy, 595 Weston Canal Road in Somerset, N.J. Johnny Stone's morning show will also be covering the events there.
Star-99 marked last year's fifth anniversary at the same field with just flags. This year the station decided to add the shoes, and has been collecting them from individuals across the area. Some of the shoes will belong to people killed that day.
Read more from the NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/09/10/2007-09-10_911_radio_tributes_to_include_shoes_pray.html?ref=rss