9/11/01

Something we read in class.

I feel that 9/11 is a very sad event that happened on 9/11/01. It was when four planes were hijacked and two were flew into the world trade center and one was flew into the pentagon. The fourth was believed to be shot down and by the armed forces and everyone was killed in the plane wreck but we can't be sure.  In all there are 2,983, including everyone who died at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and in the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. I think it was better to build a memorial there then to just build something new over it. I believe the fountain works good because it shows water going into what can be called a dark void and dark voids express a sense of loss and grief. It is also a good idea how they have everyone who died on the walls that surrounds the memorial in bronze. It is a beautiful memorial that doesn't take you to the dark place of 9/11 and leave you there.

attack on the World Trade Center,

But ten years later, the newly completed memorial,

the memorial doesn't carry you into a dark place and leave you there,

a 70-ft.-deep concrete "bathtub" scorched by the fires of the attack, ,

dark voids express a sense of loss and grief,

died at the world trade center,

the backdrop of two giant, churning memory machines,

Can these potent excavations that surrounds them ever fulfill their dual mission, as sacred ground?         
                                                                                               - Brandon Hargrave