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| Breakfast: Ham, biscuits and gravy without the biscuits, a cinimmon roll and cofee |
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| Trinity Church, which was within the shadow of the Twin Towers |
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| Another view of Trinity Churh |
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| Walking towa the 9-11 Memorial |
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| And the work goes on |
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| A heavy police presence all around the area |
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| The wait to get in. It's free, but you have to get tickets in advance so they can control the crowds |
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| Inside the Memorial grounds |
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| Crowds are drawn to the Memorial Pools |
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| Reading the names of those lost engraved around the footprints of each tower. Overwhelming. |
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| Looking across one of the pools to the Memorial Museum, which will open next year |
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| The pools are beautiful. Water as tears for those lost pouring into the spaces where two giant towers once stood |
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| Construction around the site |
The memorial includes the names of those who died in the attacks on the Pentagon
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| ...as well as those who were killed in an earlier bombing at the World Trade Center |
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| Construction everywhere outside the memorial grounds |
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| The most poignant of all, I think is the bottom name in this photo: "Sylvia Pio Resta and her unborn child." It is to weep. |
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| Construction side of the Memorial Museum |
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| Just before I had a chance to capture it, a small boy, urged on by his father, went up to shake the policemen's hands and thank them. |
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| I believe I mentioned police presence? |
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| Castle Clinton is where people who haven't pre-ordered tickets for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island buy them |
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| My best friend Gary trying his first soft pretzel while waiting for the ferry to the Statue of Liberty |
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| Vietnam and Korean war memorisl |
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| Long, long line to board ferry to Statue of Liberty |
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| Merchant Marine monument |
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| Each ferry carries a mini United Nations of nationalities |
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| Every ferry is packed |
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| The Statue of Liberty as seen by millions of immigrants |
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| Wish I had--or knew how to put in--a saying to put in the blank space |
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| As each ferry approaches Liberty Island , thousands more people wait to board for Ellis Island |
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| The Statue is seldom seen from behind |
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| Skyline from Liberty Island |
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| Statue ferries run every 15 minutes or so, like clockwork |
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| I like this angle |
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| Cleaning and repair of statue base...statue itself cannot be entered during it. |
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| Posing with statue in background, photoing from evey angle |
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| This single photo captures the attraction of America |
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| Iconic angle w/contruction crane |
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| Leaving the ferry at Ellis Island |
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| I took a lot of these explanations until my battery went dead. Read if you're interested, skip if you're not. |
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2 comments:
Those are all things I have not taken the time to see and I only live about a 5 hour car ride away. The photos of the 9/11 memorial are wonderful.
Katy...it's a definite "must visit" but as long as you've waited this long, I might suggest you hold off a bit longer until the Memorial Museum opens in 2013...and the Freedom Tower should be finished by that time, too.
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