An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Did The MSM Ignore This?
I don’t remember ever hearing about it. After some searching, I found an article in The New Yorker, dated June 26, 2007.
Tsereteli’s inspiration came, he says, on September 11, 2001. “I saw the people gathered around the American Embassy,” he said recently from Moscow. “The tear that came out of my eye and fell, that gave me the idea for the monument.” Tsereteli, who is seventy-three and bogglingly prolific, flew to New York, visited Ground Zero, and decided that it wasn’t the appropriate place for the sculpture. He pitched it to Jersey City, where the mayor loved it.
In case you can’t read the print, it say “Monument to the struggle against world terrorism”, “Artist – Zurab Tsereteli”, with the equivilent in Russian.
Around the base are the names of those murdered, very much like the Vietnam Wall.
Today, a large banner hangs on a warehouse alongside the monument, with portraits of Putin and President George W. Bush facing one another across the battle cry “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism.” Inscribed on the monument’s base are the names of the 9/11 victims, along with the names of those who died in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The base has eleven sides. Nine pathways lead to it. The Tear of Grief is aligned, it is said, with the missing towers, across the water. On a recent sunny afternoon, two men drove up and parked near the monument—a Bayonne resident and his son, home from college. They walked around its base, studying the names. The father pointed at one with his shoe. “See, there’s Noley,” he said. Asked what he thought of the monument, the father looked up, shading his eyes against the ferocious brilliance of the Tear of Grief. “Pretty impressive,” he said.
I’m very curious…why did the MSM ignore this? It’s a beautiful tribute, and a generous gift.
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They ignored it because it’s a reminder that you CANNOT negotiate with terrorists, something the current administration will never get into their empty heads.