WTC sightings
As my family has come up to NY for Thanksgiving, many of them wanted to see the World Trade Center sight. So we headed downtown on the R and I managed to get us to the south side of the sight (less people than on the east side). As we looked at the big hole and some of the posters displayed, a mother was explaining to her 5-6 year old daughter what was here and what happened. At first I was shocked that anyone could not know what had happened, even a child. But then she was only 2 or so when it happened. After her mom pointed to a picture and described planes running into the giraffe-like sky scrappers, the girl's face took on a solemn expression. Her face reminded me of my thoughts while visiting the Vietnam memorial decades ago. An air of "oh, that's sad." Its so hard to grasp the utter tragedy of an event unless you remember your experiences during it. That there is already a generation that views September 11th as "history" just seems weird. and also somehow wrong.
posted by gordian knot @ Thursday, November 24, 2005
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