Songs of Remembrance
By
Wynne Davis, Jacob Ganz, Desiree F. Hicks, Gerry Holmes, Alyson Hurt, Connie Hanzhang Jin, Caroline Kelly, Koko Nakajima, Tien Le, Daoud Tyler-Ameen |
NPR
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Two years later, nearly a million Americans have died from the disease. To put a face on this number and pay respect to the departed, NPR asked our audience to share songs that reminded them of a loved one lost to COVID-19. What follows are individual stories of those who have passed, those mourning them and the songs that continue to unite them.
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