Last Day in New York, New York; April 8
One more day in NYC. Today we had reserved passes to the 9/11 Memorial. They are free, but if you get the online passes you can save yourself a lot of time visiting this place. At the end of May, the 9/11 Museum will open, and perhaps it will be different then—we think the memorial itself will be a park open to the public. And what a beautiful park it will be. There are lots of young trees, and then of course the two enormous sculpted waterfalls that fall 30 feet to a square bottom, then funnel into a second square and disappear into darkness. All of the names of the 9/11 victims are inscribed, and roses rise out of the carved names here and there where someone has come to remember. A “survivor tree”, a tree that grew from an 8 foot stump that was found in the bottom of the rubble, was full of buds and a lovely symbol of hope. Since I’d blubbered my way through an explanation of all that happened on 9/11 when we were in Shanksville last week, I avoided the brief emotional bre...