In Bayonne, New Jersey sits a secret that few people know of, Tear Drop. It is overshadowed by the great memorial to the victims of 9/11 that sits at the end of Manhattan Island at the Battery where the Twin Towers once stood. Yet, it too is a memorial with the same purpose: to venerate, consecrate, and to memorialize the people, the many victims, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters, and friends who died innocently because of hate and anger that lives in this world.
I refer to the 9/11 memorial gifted from the Russian people
to the American people. Tear Drop, a beautiful 100 foot-tall monument sits
alone and almost forgotten and unheard of as it faces the across the entrance
to New York Harbor.
The cracked facade breaking forms the shape of the two
towers, the giant suspended teardrop signifying the tears of the entire world
that day.
Is it not so ironic that the gift came from the Russian people?
Do they, as we do, wish for peace in this world? Does it not point out the real
truth, that it is governments and not their people making war, destroying cultures
and dividing us as human beings?
1 comment:
Hello
This is a truly interesting topic. A online college class could support to get into that even better.
Greetings,
Oscar
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