Piece Comment

Review of The Parents of Nick Spry


The question is: what do you want to hear on the radio? well, OK, why not this? Perhaps some station should run a day of soldier eulogies - the way the New York Times eulogized the individuals that died on September 11 person-by- person to great effect - because, in my opinion, it might be the only way to help humans really understand with their gut the loss of other humans. In the piece the father says "he was 538. That number is burned in my memory. It's over 600 now." That's a great detail - but it took mea moment to pick up on it - I think it's a little buried in the piece, and I think the information could be presented in a different order (that's the constructive criticism part), but all in all quality of this is good.