{May 2015: my parent's visit} ~ 9/11 Memorial Museum and Dinner afterwards

Two pools with names of those who perished in 9/11.

Ground Zero.

This was the plaque showing the story of the 

building of the twin towers before

they were destroyed. 

Fire truck...

My Mother wanted to visit ground zero and the memorial museum. 

And so we went, my Dad, Mom and myself, after we had 

an enjoyable lunch with Mr. Husband...

It was an intense experience as you hear phone messages

of people on the planes,

read, look and watch.

It's amazing that the construction was so good for the twin towers that

they crumbled inside instead of toppling.

Still, so much lost, so much destroyed.

I had not realized either that only a small percentage 

(of course still tragic and in the 1000s) of the people died 

in this attack....

I realized on a new level how this attack was so much,

in effect, like a bombing... 

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It was well done, intense as I said; my parents and I got separated in the crowd and 

unbeknownst me, my parents were waiting for me for over 20 minutes when I was 

still finding new nooks in the historical section of the museum.

By the end I was looking for them a lot and it was a while before I figured out how to get

out of that section of the museum and immediately saw my Dad... :)

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I must say that I was sad that when I heard and watched the bit on the 

planes in the Pentagon that the man who helped

the plane land elsewhere, and who I have known said the

Lord's Prayer with the phone operator before going to 

try to stop the hijackers - this was not mentioned.

I wish Christianity was not being taken so far away

from the public sphere. 

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After this we ended up going home as we had a

plumbing-water-running-when-it-should-not-be issue.

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My Dad fixed it in short order and our neighbour had

kindly turned off the water meanwhile.

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We went to the diner for dinner,

and as it was not a fast day or during a fast,

I got a hamburger and milk shake and fries.

I felt I needed something substantial after

that museum! 

Sorry for the middle of the Apostle's Fast

blogging about food we are abstaining from

for a duration of time!

I must say that our local diner has the best

milk shakes around here.

I may keep searching but really,

I am quite satisfied. :)

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And the diner always gives so much food that we

have left overs for later!