Glad I wasn't living here, in Jersey City where I took this shot (and where my wife and I were living in 1984) 10 years ago, because I'm not sure I'd ever have recovered my sanity if I had to look at the hole in the skyline every morning.
I'll gladly live with my memory from this image. In any case, ten years on, I think it's high time we all moved on. There was an article in today's NY Times that discussed the feelings of residents of one NYC's hardest hit neighborhoods (the Rockaways section of Queens, which supplies a disproportionate number of uniformed city workers). Some of the survivors have said much the same. Though gruesome acts that reflect that dark side of human behavior should never, ever be forgotten (the Holocaust, the Cambodian Killing Fields, Rawanda's genocide and 9/11, just name a few), we shouldn't live frozen in time. I think a decade seems like a good span of time now, especially have read the emotionally moving thoughts of some of the folks most directly affected. I'm glad they've granted themselves permission to end the period of intense mourning. I think we should all focus on life and thereby honor the fallen AND their survivors.
A link to the Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/us...pagewanted=all
"The Way I Prefer to Remember Them"Jersey City, Liberty State Park, 1984
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