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Monday, November 15, 2010

Up Close and Personal

Here we are standing under Miss Liberty. Once again we had the most gorgeous day ever. We found her inspiring, beautiful, and quite large! The pedistal is as tall as she is. The story of building the pedastal just to hold her (after France sent her over) is pretty cool. We went in her inards and the amount of steel securing her would support any large bridge or skyscraper. I would recomend everyone get up close and personal with her. I am finding that on this trip I am spending a lot of time thinking about the word liberty. A blessing that I definitely take for granted.

Ellis Island on a beautiful day. You are looking at the processing building where they weighed, measured, tested IQ of 12 million immigrants. They pulled up their eyelids with a button hook to look for disease, - The tests and measurements were elementary but they made the immigrants so nervous and a few were sent back! It is hard to imagine the fear and trepidation they felt.
Sorry that you cannot see this but you are looking at Jon's back as he looks at ground zero. Today they are building a new building on the sight - Trade Center One - next year will be 10 years and they will dedicate a park at the sight as well. There really is very little information around the area but the tourists keep flooding in to see it. In some ways it felt like New Yorkers had moved on - but if you dig there is plenty of personal accounts. My favorite is the church that withstood the explosions when the buildings around it suffered. That church became a respite and place of peace and provision for the firemen and volunteers over the next many months. I don't think we ever thought we would be here - but we are glad we did. What happened here changed the world as we know it - right along with Pearl Harbor , the Atomic Bomb, the assasination of JFK. Every generation has an event that cannot be forgotten - it reminds us how vulnerable we are. Something to think about. TTFN
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