November 22, 2015

Sunday Morning, New York

After a proper Sunday breakfast [it's New York!], there was one more visit on this trip's agenda. A place I hadn't visited since December, 2001.

Salvaged support columns from the World Trade Center, New York, New York
Names are stamped into the borders around the waterfalls that pour into the open footprints of the twin towers, a ceaseless cascade of tears. Thousands of names. I needed no hint from the computerized directory. The North Tower. Flight 11. I found Paul's name.

Name of Paul J. Friedman etched at the North Tower Memorial, World Trade Center, New York, New York
I toured the museum, but it was too much. Fourteen years, it seems, is not long enough.

Freedom Tower, One World Trade Center, New York, New York
Fluctuat nec mergitur.

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