Blog 16 - Proposed focus for Essay No. 3

My proposed focus is to show how memories are tied to physical locals. The object is the World Trade Center. I am including physical descriptions and comparable personal memories before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Specifically, I will discuss when I worked at the World Trade Center and compare it to when I visited shortly after the attacks. I welcome comments from my classmates.

Story begins here:

It was inevitable. I have to see lower Manhattan after the attacks. Not that I need to see the destruction. I could see that on the news. But to see what was left of a place where I had once felt so comfortable.

I leave the subway and already everything feels different. I walk past a firehouse. It displays a memorial. No one I know. I pass a store selling 9/11 terrorist attack memorabilia. I am really not in the mood. I look it over and am assured that it is respectful. I can’t see the towers. They are not there. I walk toward where they had been.

To be continued...

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I received a lot of validation for my story from my group members in class. I will tell a story of my visit to lower Manhattan after the terrorist attacks. I will tell the story of walking around the terrorist site and interject stories about what I had experienced in lower Manhattan prior to the attacks. I will discuss how on this visit after the attacks I stopped by a memorial for dead, missing and injured firefighters and how my cousin's name was listed with the missing and how I coincidentally met my sister at the memorial.