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Take one of the Tours there. The guided tours are well worth it.
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Ground Zero, every morning.
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06-28-2007, 09:37 PM | #24 |
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I know that's a moving experience for people, but for some reason it doesn't approximate the other battlefield experiences for me. It's eery, but it doesn't feel as sacred.
In a battlefield, people knew they would be fighting and dying but still fought knowing death was possible and in many instances probable. Ground Zero is the result of unexpected death. As is OKC. So I perceive weirdness, as if it's a disconnect. Perhaps I'm disconnected. Does anybody else experience that, or am I alone?
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For me, seeing what remained of the building awakened me to how safe we really are. Which I suppose is somewhat ironic. But that's the impact it had on me. Now, the memorial to the USS Oklahoma, or reading of those that died at Normandy, something like that instills an entirely different kind of patriotic respect. |
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I don't think 9/11 has bonded us as a nation. We have an assinine president who due to his policies as a result of 9/11 have divided and demoralized the nation.
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Personally, I thing Ground Zero is a circus right now. People selling all sorts of wares, family bitching and moaning about how they don't like this or that in the plans, tourists all over the place. It's certainly not a place of solitude and reflection like it once was, back when I moved here. |
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