On Sep 18, 2006, at 7:53 PM, Garrett Fitzgerald wrote:
I rented the DVD of Godspell sometime in the past 5 years: while I had sung bits of it in church choir, I had never sat through the whole thing. It was amazingly painful to see the cast on the top of the still-under-construction WTC.
As a kid growing up in Teaneck, NJ, I could see the WTC towers being built from a distance, and the newspapers were always showing updates on this project. I remember thinking how awesome it was that something over 10 miles away was visible from my home town. The towers became a touchstone for me, and it still seems odd when I go back there not to see them as I travel the area.
The neighboring town of Leonia has a large county park that is near where my wife and I used to live. It features several large oval tracks, tennis courts and soccer pitches, and when we went back there for Easter weekend, my wife and I went for a walk around the park like we used to do 25 years earlier. This time, though, there was a new addition, and before we got close it was obvious that it was a memorial to 9/11. It was very striking, containing the names of the victims of that event from Bergen County (the northeastern-most county in NJ, directly adjacent to Manhattan). After walking around it and reading the inscriptions, a flood of memories from that event came back. I've been disconnected from Manhattan for a decade, but that made me realize that this event was much more personal that I had previously understood.
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