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.
-- Ed Leafe
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