9/11

[NJCher]

Have you been watching the 9/11 specials? I have been. Why I don't know, because I cry my eyes out with about every one of them. Tonight I watched The Voices of 9/11, which was audio clips, phone messages, etc., from that horrible day. People calling their loved ones for the last time. The despair and hopelessness in their voices was heartbreaking.

What these people went through.

What we all went through--with eight long miserable years of bush and darth. I thought they would never end.

Then tonight they showed a Kennedy home movies special and I cried at that, too: how we were cheated out of the nation we could have been, had Jack Kennedy and RFK not been shot. And what we are now. I think of bush sr lurking there in Dallas. Makes me ill.

I live on a mountain, and as one comes from the west toward NYC, the Twin Towers used to appear like they were at the end of the street. As I would turn off the main road to my house, I would always look at them. They were a marker. And then all of a sudden, one day they just were not there.



Also not far from here is what is called Eagle Rock Park. A super moon photo taken there is posted above. This is a park on a cliff of the mountain. It has the most incredible skyline view of NYC. Lots of people go there to enjoy the view, usually young couples but often young families, too. There is a very upscale restaurant located in the park, and it has seating areas on patios outside. Almost always they have a pianist, and it is lovely to hear the strains of the music floating across the park.

Because this park overlooks the NYC skyline, it is where they built the main WTC Memorial on the Jersey side. There is a grove of trees that were planted, along with markers. The names of all the people who died are engraved in granite on pieces that face the edge of the cliff and the skyline. So often people just walk along, looking at the people's names, their ages, and the town they were from. I remember one night how people were wondering about a young girl, age 12.

There are statues, too. There is one of a little girl. There is one with a fireman's hat. There is a new one that is wrapped up, which I imagine will be unveiled on 9/11.

Every town around here has a Memorial Park for its citizens who died on that day. I know because I go walking my neighbor's dog in all the parks here. They are usually gardens that commemorate them. They are very pretty, often laid out in a circular pattern with a sun clock in the middle.



Cher

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. =Prayers for the complete healing of all 9/11 suffering=

:hug:

[Lucinda]

2. The only one I saw was the Bio special

Beyond: Messages from 9/11 - and I watched it on HUlU after seeing it mentioned in a thread.

I don't have cable, but I wouldn't have watched anything today.
I find myself a bit self protective regarding what I watch due to heath reasons. Between medicine I'm on, and being sort of wide open from long term health issues, things tend to hit me physically - if that makes sense. It's easier on me to hear about it second hand from others who are watching, and getting images from posts like your beautiful OP.

[BlueIris]

3. I could hardly stand to watch the tributes.

I apologize to those I offend, but I found most of the remembrances to be gratuitous, inappropriate, and tainted by the lingering stench of the imperialist motives of the Bush Administration, who exploited 9/11 in ways this country will never live down. I cannot imagine what the victims have been through, and I am gutted for them, because of the ways the memories of their loved ones continue to be used.