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I live in downtown Manhattan and have for a number of years. I was living downtown on September 11th 2001, and it was really only a fluke that I had an early morning meeting that day, otherwise I would have been running right beside the Winter Garden when the first plane struck.
There is very little I want to contribute to a discussion about September 11th, in part because I still get very angry about the politics and the suffering and it is hard to explain what living down here then was like exactly.
What I think about is how I will have to talk to Felix about what happened. I remember how a friend of mine who lives uptown was told by various friends of hers that they were not letting their kids know anything about anything. They were pretending nothing happened at all. My friend had no intention of keeping this enormous event from her children and today they are happy, well adjusted, savvy kids. I understand the impulse to hide the unexplainable and terrifying, but I think it is unwise. Of course, I can't talk to a toddler about these things now, but I certainly will when I think he can understand.
My husband took this picture on September 19th, 2001. This is the last structure of the World Trade Centers that persisted after the 11th.
For the longest time, it was going to form the central part of some sort of memorial, but it got misplaced. This made a lot of people angry, but no angrier, really than they were at everything else.
For my part, I think it will reappear. For one thing, New York City never manages to repress anything for very long and for another, you should see the things that show up in the City's lost and founds.
posted by Elise at 7:39 PM
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