After having lived in New York City for about seven years in the very early 2000's, at the very tip of lower Manhattan, my stomping grounds were Battery Park City and the World Trade Center Towers. The attack on the towers affected everyone worldwide, but none so as those of us living in the city.
It took me several months to return to Ground Zero ... to see the flood lights amidst the smoldering ruins and rising smoke full of burning debris, metal and people. I did return to pay my respects and to begin healing the emotional wounds of a shaken view of security in my world.
Years later, I flew back to my former home after they had just opened the "foot print" memorials. Words cannot express what you take in, experience and feel in the all-too-often silences in the crowd. The design is unique and expressive of how the memory takes us from our current world, into our memories and down into mourning.
Especially moving are the names ... all the names: from the original WTC attack, to the Pentagon, WTC Towers and that isolated rural field in Pennsylvania. You see images of someone's handprint on a name. And names you recognize as heretofore unspoken heroes: such as Mark Bingham. But most moving are the unborn who were lost before taking in their first breath.
This is a memorial for everyone we have ever lost ... everywhere in the world ... whatever the reason.
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Category:Architecture and Structures
Subcategory:Places of Interest
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Keywords:9/11, Heros, Mark Bingham, NYC, Terrorism, World Trade Towers
