PBS NewsHour | Victims' Family Members Write Hopes, Sorrows in 'The Legacy Letters' | PBS
Duration: 09:03
Program:
America Remembers - 9/11
Broadcast Date: Sep. 11, 2011
If the people who lost family members on 9/11 wrote letters to their deceased loved ones about their lives today, their sorrow and their hopes, what would they say? Jeffrey Brown reports on a new collection titled, "The Legacy Letters," which offered just that chance.
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