9/11 Memorial

I know I haven't actually written here in a while. Just plastering my pretend awesome photos. But the memorial makes you think so let's see what happens here...

After wandering around in the cold all day and eating yummy Italian, we went to check out the 9/11 memorial.

It was frigid, but that also meant not a lot of people which was nice.

The feeling there is sorrow and emptiness. I think the waterfalls and the largeness of it all promotes that feeling, at least in the dead winter it seemed like it. I didn't know anyone who was in the towers or flights or anything. I didn't even know what the Wold Trade Center was when I heard the announcement on the radio coming home from Seminary that morning.

But this action, this thing has affected everyone in our county, and you can feel that deeply there.

Those two pits are huge and covered with names. The saddest one being a woman's name and her unborn child. So many futures gone.

It made me wonder if this place eventually have the same feelings like the memorials in DC? When we went to those I felt a sense of pride and gratitude for the sacrifices made. Or will it always feel like sorrow and emptiness at this memorial because it's the result of something done to us rather than being proactive Americans?

I am glad that there is a place to remember the people who were killed so tragically. And I'm extremely grateful to live in this country even if I don't always agree with the politics or think it's being managed in the best way possible.

This is a blessed county. There are so many miracles that had to happen for it's creation to be possible. And I'm happy that those miracles did happen.