Would You Take, Keep ?

[Nyboy]

Last night a friend who is moving offered me a couple of carved granite Flur de lis. for garden ornaments. I told her I had to think about it. They are from the Deutsche bank at ground zero. They where thrown in a dumpster when the building was torn down. I don't know if I want something that was in the center of so much death. When they where tearing down the building they found bodies that where missed in the clean up. Part of me sees it as having a piece of history. part of me thinks its to creepy. Would you put them in your garden?

 

[Ridgerunner]

I'd be honored to have them.

 

[thistlebloom]

I agree with Ridge. Make them the center of a garden that reflects courage and resilience.

 

[Smart Red]

YES! If you don't want them, send them to me. They can be a valuable piece of American history as well as a great introduction to learning about this tragic day.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

I agree with everybody else, I would be honored to have them (but might put them in some kind of museum).

If you decide not to keep them, please consider sending them to Red. From what I've heard from friends, many schools aren't teaching about wars and other disastrous events. We all need to learn about events like this to prepare/avoid them in the future afterall.

 

[Nyboy]

I sent her email I will take them.

 

[Smart Red]

Taking a collection here to pay for shipping of those precious items . . . . .
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Have to teach the good stuff AND the bad. "If we don't learn from our mistakes we're destined to repeat them" and all that. I'm the ONLY teacher who taught the reasons for our Constitution through the Revolutionary War. The only one who actually got through the Civil War where most of the others finished up the year just before it started. Always spent the month of February (and around) on the War Between the States so I could give plenty of attention to Black History Month as well.

Yup! My students even used the Constitution when arguing a point with the Principal.

 

[Jared77]

Glad you took them. Even if it's to find them a better home.

 

[Nyboy]

I guess I remember to much of the fear, for months after. It was one thing to watch it on TV another to live with it. Getting on a bus or train with miltary guards holding M-16 thinking what good are they if there a bomb. Death,Blood and Fear is what I think of when I think of that day.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Yeah I was in Kazahkstan when that happened and flew home about a week later. I think I was one of about only 20 passengers on that trans-Atlantic flight. Everybody was afraid to fly but darn it I was going home. I was getting on that plane. From the security I figure that was one of the safest flight I've ever been on.

Our prime contractor was Arab and there were a lot of Arabs around, many from Palestine and Lebanon. Many offered condolences and a couple had relatives that were working and died in the Twin Towers. It wasn't just Americans. My cousin, an Air Force major, was working in the Pentagon that day. Luckily her office was not hit. Oh, I have memories of that day and they are not good memories. But I still consider those relics of what is good about us, not what is bad about some people.