9/11, 9 Years Later: Photo Essay from Two Sides of the Street

Before we even made it to a street, we could listen to a bullhorns from a subway height during a WTC stop.

Wed intended to leave a city for a day. The devise was to go up to a Hudson River Valley for a BBQ during a friends house. Julie was seeking brazen to it. She said she had a bad feeling about this sold anniversary.

Since our daughter has been sick since Wednesday, though, we decided to stay closer to home.

I was curious to see a dual rallies scheduled a single sponsored by a New York City Coalition to Stop Islamophobia as well as a alternative sponsored by Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) as well as Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI). Both, in a single way or another, were making a criticism about a Muslim Community Center which has been due a couple of blocks away from Ground Zero.

So we took my camera as well as went downtown.

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1. Though SIOA as well as FDI had asked their supporters to move American flags instead of signs, not everybody complied.

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2. One of a most things which confuses me about a national conversation about a mosque, is how opponents conflate issues which arent wholly related.

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3. The Flag of Honor lists a names of a people who were killed in a Sep 11, 2001 militant attacks.

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4. we was also confused by competing messages about forgiveness inside of a Christian tradition. Here, an aggressive matter about non-forgiveness.

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5. And here a reference to Christ turning a alternative cheek.

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6. In fact, there were people who werent protesting a mosque; instead, they were protesting termination as well as calling for national repentance.

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7. Many participants wore shirts which settled their ideology clearly.

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8. A retard away, nearby City Hall, were a people whod turned out for a rally orderly by a New York City Coalition to Stop Islamophobia.

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9. Some of their messages, we definitely concluded with.

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10. Some were too narrow-minded for me.

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11. A couple of were moving.

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12. And some were officious non-sensical.

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13. Overall, a sceneon both sides of a streetmade me sad. we didnt feel which we belonged even in a orga! nisation whose perspective we shared. we saw lots of people on a margins.

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14. Amidst all a screaming as well as sign waving, these were a people who felt a most

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15. real.

Community Connection:

From a archives:

8:46 AM, 9/11, Manhattan

Working with Mental Patients a Morning of 9/11


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