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  1. kishik

    Back at the beach at Pt Lookout, Long Island, New York.  It’s an annual pilgrimage for me, to go to head to the beach on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.  I started out at Long Beach, and then went to the first hosted service held by the Township.

    One of the contributors at the ceremony was this woman, Andree Marshall, who shared words of unbelievable endurance, strength, kindness and love.  Ms. Marshall was working in the World Trade Center in 1993 when it was first bombed.  She was seven months pregnant when the Towers came down in 2001, with twins.  She lived in Belle Harbor that year.  The plane, AA flight 587, crashed in Belle Harbor two months later.  She moved to Long Island, to Island Park, a town on the south shore that was hit very hard by good old Sandy.  She conveyed that she would not allow the constant rain of strife and sadness stop her from living, because without rain, there is no life.

    The young man sitting next to her is the son of someone who perished on September 11, 2001.  He was four years old at the time.  What he shared had everyone in tears, and he struggle to convey how he still missed his father.

    For me, I always find September 11 marks my end of summer.  

    Before this year’s summer’s end, the hummingbirds came.

    I can endure the winter thinking of their return next Spring.

    Peace to all.

  3. Jk2003

    My husband and I just watched a documentary of footage of that day.  We kept saying o each other “why are we watching this?”.   But I find a need to see the images of that day to remind me of the fear, sadness and scope of the damage done that day.  

    Thanks for the pictures and especially the story of Mrs. Marshall.

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