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One of the simplest but most profound art pieces I ever saw was called ‘the other Vietnam memorial’something came up that reminded me of this just last night. My GF cannot talk about the war that happened in her country. In fact, none of the Vn people that I know are willing to. So when we were purchasing NYC Flex passes last night, it occurred to me that she may not be able to do the 911 stuff. She agreed that it may be difficult but eventually said she would like to go anyway. I told her that it had messed with me for a long time (the people jumping in particular). It kind of generated a similar feeling - something just better left in the past. But we are going.
There was a central pillar with ‘pages’ (so a circular book)
It was filled with the names of the Vietnamese deaths from the Vietnam war - it was huge
9/11 hit personally for me - an ex (who lived in NYC) had broken up A few months before- we got back together after that - but try as we might we still couldn’t make it work
Contrast to Katrina when my now wife and I (early into the relationship) evacuated together- we figured if we could handle that, how hard could marriage be