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Leora Long
{K:11135} 9/17/2009
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Me too, Zeljko. Thanks for the thoughtful comment.
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Zeljko Milutinovic
{K:1289} 9/17/2009
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Great shot Leora, of magnificent city. Unfortunately, I never saw the Towers in person. My first, and for now only, visit to NYC was in 2007. On that place will raise a new building(s) as a symbol of peace and freedom to future generations. I hope they will be more clever then us...
Best wishes,
Zeljko
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Leora Long
{K:11135} 7/12/2009
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Thank you for your generous comment, Iman. I am very nostalgic about the past when life was simpler. I am starting to understand politics and the devastating effect it can have on people's lives.
Be safe and well, Leora
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Leora Long
{K:11135} 7/12/2009
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Thank you for your nice and beautiful comment, Hussam. I say, "If only things could have been different, all would still be nice."
I appreciate your decorative talents and your photography.
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Hussam AL_ Khoder
{K:79545} 7/11/2009
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Leora Long
{K:11135} 3/1/2009
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Thank you so much, Zeev. Wishful thinking, but I like to remember it like this.
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Zeev Scharf
{K:25603} 2/8/2009
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Excellent Image,a memory to never forget,beautiful composition
7+++++++
Best regards
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Leora Long
{K:11135} 1/18/2009
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Thank you for your thoughtful comment, reza. For the survivors it has not been easy, many have respiratory problems. But thanks to Robert de Niro much of the adjacent area has been revived. He is known for his film studio and yearly festival. Local restaurants have come back to life. But the towers will not return in the same form.
There has been a competition for the prize of rebuilding and not everyone is happy with the design. They must honor the dead somehow, too, and there are disagreements about how that should be done. I think one plan is to make reflective pools where the buildings used to stand and build around those.
I used to go there a lot and photograph from the top. I have not been back there. It was too painful for me to return to the disaster scene, so I prefer to remember it as it was before and create an imaginary bubble to protect it.
I am glad you like my personal view.
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Leora Long
{K:11135} 1/18/2009
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Thanks, jacques. I am pushing the envelope just a bit. I am glad you like it.
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jacques brisebois
{K:73883} 1/12/2009
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interesting work once again Leora.
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Luca Peccerillo
{K:17660} 11/15/2008
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Very fine piece
very rare pic....many congrats
All tge best
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Iman Fouad
{K:12295} 9/26/2008
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intersting documentary shot..like the arc in the sky and old tone ..well presented and sharing Leora
Regards,
Iman
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reza goudarzi
{K:7097} 9/25/2008
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a memorial pic...very good capture...but sadness to remember what happend to peoples there
what did they do?
do they like to made them again or miss them for ever?
regards
reza.
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Leora Long
{K:11135} 9/21/2008
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Thanks, Nessa. I can't help thinking that a lot of mistakes were made leading up to 9/11 and even and more in the name of 9/11, so I like to go back to the simple priorities right under our noses. I am very glad you like it.
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vanessa shakesheff
{K:68840} 9/21/2008
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Wonderful picture ..love your bubble protecting the twin towers ..nessa
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Leora Long
{K:11135} 9/16/2008
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Thank you, Arif. I am glad you like it. And I agree with you. But there are fanatics that believe that it has to get worse before it gets better. Best regards...
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Leora Long
{K:11135} 9/16/2008
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Thanks, Sunset Man, or Doug from Hawaii. I could not resist turning back the clock.
I don't know why it came out so small on the screen. I had to click on panoramic view to even see the Statue of Liberty.
I am glad you like it. Your sunsets are remarkable and so classic.
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Leora Long
{K:11135} 9/16/2008
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I believe a decision has been made, but I don't know if any tenants have signed up. People may not remember that it took a while to fill the original towers and a lot of government offices were put in as a result. Who would want to be in such a tall building after this? Without a parachute!
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Arif Ertan Ersoy (aersoy)
{K:27380} 9/16/2008
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nice work dear leora!! i wish the bloody terror will stop one day!
compliments,
arif
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神 風
{K:10665} 9/13/2008
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A very fine archived journalistic tribute Leora ...
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Len Webster
{K:25714} 9/13/2008
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Leora, I saw part of a programme on t.v. that showed the very early stages of rebuilding. After all, I guess that it took a while to decide what to do about the site following those terrible attacks.
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Leora Long
{K:11135} 9/13/2008
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Thanks, Roby. It is a fantasy, but sometimes that can help.
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Leora Long
{K:11135} 9/13/2008
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You are very optimistic, Len. It is 7 years and we have no replacement. Too many factions - like building the tower of Babel.
Thanks for your comment and insight.
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Len Webster
{K:25714} 9/12/2008
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Interesting post. Maybe in a few years' time you can get a good shot of the replacement buildings to put alongside this little slice of history...
(It's so long since I was in New York City that I have no pictures of the twin towers because they hadn't been built!)
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 9/12/2008
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oh.. is a really dramatic remebre..
have all the best my dear..
roby
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Leora Long
{K:11135} 9/12/2008
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I found this photo in my archives and started cleaning up the sky. It occured to me what was missing - a bubble protecting the Towers.
If not a bubble, then an enlightened government and intelligence force that could pre-empt the destruction of the Towers, or better engineering and design of the Tower's structures, not tied to cost efficiency.
It gives me some comfort to remember the many times we enjoyed the Towers from near and afar, like on this particular 4th of July.
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