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Sunday, April 26, 2009

We Visit the 9/11 Memorial from Russia

The September 11th Memorial from the People of Russia to the People of the United States is dignified and spectacular. If sits on New York Harbor in Bayonne, New Jersey. My wife and I decided to see for ourselves after hearing about it from friends in Minnesota and reading about it on the Internet. We cannot understand why it has not garnered more exposure in the mainstream press and why it was virtually ignored by the previous administration. The site is tranquil and when we visited today, there was a cruise ship ready to take on passengers at a nearby slip. What a fitting memorial to the many lives that were lost on that terrible day in September 2001. You Can Read More About the Memorial Here and Here.





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4 comments:

  1. CatherineApril 26, 2009 at 7:30 PM

    Wow...I didn't know about it at all. Thanks for sharing that! Hope to get there to see it.

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  2. AnonymousApril 26, 2009 at 9:01 PM

    Looks interesting! Apparently it was quite controversial at the time it was donated:

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E6D81E31F935A2575AC0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=

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  3. PhilCApril 27, 2009 at 6:48 AM

    Anonymous,

    Thank you for sharing that article. I am aware of the controversy surrounding the memorial. I am saddened that the Bush Administration did not see this as an important gift from the Russian people to show solidarity with the loss that was suffered by all of us.

    Given the awkwardness of the Bush-Putin relationship during the second Bush Administration, I wonder if this wasn't another lost opportunity to cement a unified front against world terrorism.

    The dedication ceremony as described below in my first post was attended by Bill Clinton, the New Jersey congressional delegation and other dignitaries. The Bush Administration sent Michael Chertoff. I find that to be an obvious slight to the People of Russia. If anything, the Vice President or the Secretary of State (if not the President himself) should have made the time to attend that ceremony. It was after all, the first major memorial to the victims of September 11th to be erected.

    Phil

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2010 at 7:47 PM

    It looks like a vagina...

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