Once a year volunteers place nearly 3,000 flags on the green grounds of the Prescott Valley, Arizona civic center park.
The flags are there to honor the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001.
Later more flags were added to honor the lives of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots who perished in the Yarnell Hill Fire on June 30, 2013.
The flags gently waving in the wafting breezes give visitors a few moments to think back, perhaps to grieve or just to have a few quiet moments of reflection.
We have a 9/11 memorial in our city with a beam from the World Trade Center. The memorial is named for Naval Cmdr. Dan Shanower, a Naperville, IL native who was killed in the Pentagon that day. They have a remembrance ceremony each year there.
ReplyDeleteReally beautiful on a breezy day.
ReplyDeleteIt was a day very like today, clear and bright and just perfect...until. What a horrible, tragic day that was.
ReplyDeleteThat's beautiful. I'm not sure we have a 9/11 memorial in my town, but I've been to the one in New York City.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful way to remember.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good thing to do. When you look at the nationalities, religions and backgrounds of the victims you realise quite clearly that 9/11 was not just a wicked assault upon America but upon this world in general. What the hell did those brainwashed bastards hope to achieve?
ReplyDeleteHatred doesn't work in the long run. Based on reports that they spent the night before their attack in a strip club, they probably were looking forward to the great beyond all those virgins waiting for them.
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