No 9/11 thread?

[roberth]

Another article from a New Yorker, very well written in my estimation.

http://americandigest.org/the-wind-i...hts/#more-2808

AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY I lived in Brooklyn Heights in, of course, Brooklyn. The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge on May 24 of 1883 transformed the high bluff just to the south of the bridge into America’s first suburb. It became possible for affluent businessmen from the tip of Manhattan which lay just over the East River to commute across the bridge easily and build their stately mansions and townhouses high above the slapdash docks below. Growth and change would wash around the Heights in the 117 years that followed, but secure on their bluff, on their high ground, the Heights would remain a repository old and new money, power, and some of the finest examples of 19th and early 20th-century homes found in New York City.

[roberth]

Last Light: The Twin Towers on the evening of September 10, 2001.

http://americandigest.org/last-light...ember-10-2001/

[TRnCO]

I watched some of the footage of the event yesterday. Really brought back all the same feelings I had at the time.

[flogger]

It's hard to imagine it was 19 years ago.

[Martinjmpr]

I don't know that anything more can be said that hasn't been said over the past 19 years.

Certainly it changed the trajectory of my life. I was a 2nd year law student at the University of Wyoming when the attacks happened.

A little over a year later I was in Afghanistan and a year after that I was in Kuwait.

[Great-Kazoo]

They used my Flag of Honor for the local 9/11 ceremony.
Local guy / CA transplant decided to clean up the area around it. Is not selling "bricks" you can buy with what ever inscription you'd like to place around the area, as a walkway.




This is a section of one of the beams from the towers