A trip to New York

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bobwill1

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I just got back from New York. I managed to get within a block or two of the former WTC. It's an amazing site. I mean, you can still see dust, and gigantic piles of ruble, the immediate area looks like a war zone. I hope this pix aren't too morbid. These pics are very compressed, I have the originals burned to a CD if anyone wants better pictures. Well, here they are with some commentary.
<img src = "http://home.att.net/~rwillia/PC010118a.jpg">
Well, here's the remains of the two towers. Look at the lights on the left, that's not just an artifact of the compression, there's really that much dust in the air.
<img src = "http://home.att.net/~rwillia/PC010123a.jpg">
A picture at the same place, but zoomed in on to the right. Look at the rubble on the right. Just think, this was done by a few people with box cutters.
<img src = "http://home.att.net/~rwillia/PC010116a.jpg">
Well, this sorta speaks for itself. It's nice to see how much everyone can come together.
<img src = "http://home.att.net/~rwillia/PC010119.jpg">
This one's almost uncompressed, I put it up before I was compressing them, and only included it because yes that is a HMMWV.
 
In the third pic down there is a Texas A&M T-shirt.
It really does make you think about home, and how close this all really is.

A&M is only an hour and a half away from here.

My freshman year, two years ago, they lost 12 students when their homecomeing bonfire collapsed as it was being built.

When you go to college you expect things to change, but you never expect world events. You expect that you will hear stories of how some kid fell asleep while driving home over the vacation and was killed, but you never expect to hear of the 3000 who died in a few moments but a channel click away.

When kids attend college, we soon learn that we have experienced living but have not really experienced life.

It is amaizing what one can learn outside of a classroom. Change is truely amaizing.
 
Thanks for sharing these pictures. They are very sobering and powerful.

Ryan
 
Bob sent me the pix via email and asked me what I thought and I thought post them. We need these reminders that we are at war and the war is far from being won and over.
 
I was going to just post these pictures, but I then had second thoughts. I thought it would be better to get his approval before posting them; it's hard to tell how sensitive a topic this could be for some people, you never know how close of relative people could have had that lost their lives.
 
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