I share this submit yearly as a result of it's essential to me that we’ve got a visible reminder of at the present time, now greater than 20 years in the past. Are you able to even imagine it?
As lots of you understand, New York is close to and expensive to us. It's a metropolis we love so very a lot. I at all times knew I'd find it irresistible, and when my husband took me on my first journey (only a few days earlier than September 11, 2001) I discovered I discovered I used to be proper.
This picture at all times offers me chills. We're on the prime of the Statue of Liberty and you may barely see the towers behind me:
This was 9 days earlier than 9/11. 9 days later and the towers have been gone.
My husband was a band director on the time, and some months after the assaults we have been purported to journey to Japan for a band journey.
These first images are from the Ground Zero Museum and inform the story of that day. This location is separate from the brand new museum — it was once nearer to Floor Zero but it surely appears to be like prefer it’s moved to 14th avenue. When you go to the town I extremely advocate visiting each.
I let the images do the speaking (forgive the standard, all have been taken with a telephone through the years):
Learn the complete submit