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Happy Fourth of July: to liberty! — 8 Comments

  1. Neo:

    My first time on the Promenade, like yours, was a memory maker. The walk down Montague Street is a treat itself, but nothing approaches the awe when you reach the end and see the city. I had traveled to NYC several times before 9/11, and my first impression when I saw it afterwards, without the WTC, was that it looked emasculated. That’s an odd way to term it, I know, but that was the thought.

    And from this Texan, New York is NOT and never will be a “southern city.” 🙂

  2. This morning I have been looking through my photo folder and came across the series made by my son in June of 2001, from a Greyline boat we took that day to show Manhattan to our guests.

    Two pictures from that file made me all choked up again. One of the Lady Liberty, from the point at the foundation looking up at the torch, and another – of a deck full of people staring at the panorama of lower Manhattan with the Towers intact.

  3. I am very pleased that my “Twin Towers” Google Alert brought me to this site. It is one that I will return to with pleasure. We are birds of a feather. As a lifelong Democrat who grew up sandwiched between Lexington and Concord I came to New York in 1970.

    I rarely comment on individual blogs, but I hope you won’t mind if I share what I just added to ours:

    “Watching the Macy’s Fireworks from the George Washington Bridge on such a gorgeous night, with the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building and all the lights of the most spectacular skyline in the world at their most dazzling, was bittersweet – because it was impossible not to see what was missing.

    “How can anyone call himself or herself a New Yorker and be willing to accept a generic World Trade Center – one that would disfigure an incomparable city and incomparable country – in place of two of the most celebrated icons the world has ever seen?

    “It’s not too late to build a World Trade Center worthy of the price we paid for being Americans.”

  4. Here’s to the greatest nation that has ever existed,
    to the most benign great power that history has known,
    to the freest people of all the annals.

    Nations of the world:

    We do not seek to conquer.
    We want only to be free of violence.
    Let us go about our business in peace.

    Peoples of the world:

    We do not seek to subjugate.
    Your allegiance is not required.
    We do not want you to bow to us.

    Keep your ways.
    Keep your tongues.
    Keep your gods.

    Our desire is simple:

    Deal with us,
    buy our goods,
    sell us yours.

    We want only to trade with you.
    We will give you a fair deal.
    We will all grow wealthy together!

  5. BTW its not ONLY Black voters who need to wake up its all the gullible, emotional unthinking non enquring fools who allowed this USURPER to get in to power and who even now with all the evidence they need still can’t wake up and smell the coffee.

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