If the explosions are hard to hear, turn on your television or radio. Call a friend, and ask your friend to tape it, ask him to bring out the 4-head VCR or cassette deck, because listen, when the trees fall, you’re going to want to remember, you’re going to want a souvenir of the event.
You are, because everyone wants to remember when the trees fall. It’s the defining moment of whatever, a time when our country or region and an entire people or certain group symbolize the same breathtaking thing, a time when even the birds and VCRs stop to listen, and listen to the sound of these trees.