14. The Empire Rears Back
May 15, 2014
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Episode description
The 9/11 Memorial Museum is finally about to open – but did you know that there has been a statue of a U.S. Special Forces soldier on horseback a block away from Ground Zero since 2011?
“Sounds like something out of a movie. But this is real. This happened.” – Joe Biden, at the dedication ceremony for the America’s Response Monument.
Music by Dave Marley, Cave Cricket, Old Table, No One and the Somebodies, and TURBOSLEAZE. Special thanks to Gatsby, Rebecca, and Natalie Cohen. Photos of Lower Manhattan by Aron Pasternack.
And introducing Mo Martin as Marcus Aurelius.
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