Showing posts with label Memorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memorial. Show all posts

"And suddenly there was an empty sky" - Part 2

http://uwepetercom.blogspot.com/2014/06/and-suddenly-there-was-empty-sky-part-2.html
Liberty State Park| Jersey City | New Jersey | USA | 2014-06-14
Empty Sky is the official New Jersey September 11 memorial to the state's victims of the September 11 attacks on the United States. It is located in Liberty State Park in Jersey City at the mouth of Hudson River across from the World Trade Center site. Origin: wikipedia. It is just as emotionally as the 9/11-Memorial on the Manhattan Site.

"And suddenly there was an empty sky" - Part 1

http://uwepetercom.blogspot.com/2014/06/and-suddenly-there-was-empty-sky-part-1.html
Liberty State Park| Jersey City | New Jersey | USA | 2014-06-14
Empty Sky is the official New Jersey September 11 memorial to the state's victims of the September 11 attacks on the United States. It is located in Liberty State Park in Jersey City at the mouth of Hudson River across from the World Trade Center site. Origin: wikipedia. It is just as emotionally as the 9/11-Memorial on the Manhattan Site.

"A million dead people"

http://uwepetercom.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-million-dead-people.html
Irish Hunger Memorial | Manhattan | New York City | USA | 2014-06-14
The Irish Hunger Memorial is located at the North End Avenue in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan and is dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Famine - referred to by the Irish as 'The Great Hunger' - that killed over a million people in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. It is a uniquely landscaped plot, which utilizes stones, soil, and native vegetation brought in from the western coast of Ireland and contains stones from all of the different counties of Ireland. Origin: wikipedia

"It´s free ... yes for sure!" - Part 2

http://uwepetercom.blogspot.com/2014/06/its-free-yes-for-sure-part-2.html
Staten Island Ferry | New York City| USA | 2014-06-10
The Staten Island Ferry is a public transport for New York residents who live in Staten Island and go for work in Manhattan. And for tourists it is a cheap possibility to pass the Statue of Liberty, because the ferry is free. Just beneath the landing jetty in Staten Island you can visit the Staten Island 9/11-Memorial. A remembrance to all Staten Island Victims of the terror attacs.

"It´s free ... yes for sure!" - Part 1

http://uwepetercom.blogspot.com/2014/06/its-free-yes-for-sure-part-1.html
Staten Island Ferry | New York City| USA | 2014-06-10
The Staten Island Ferry is a public transport for New York residents who live in Staten Island and go for work in Manhattan. And for tourists it is a cheap possibility to pass the Statue of Liberty, because the ferry is free. Just beneath the landing jetty in Staten Island you can visit the Staten Island 9/11-Memorial. A remembrance to all Staten Island Victims of the terror attacs.

"The financial district ... a place of money and remembrance"

http://uwepetercom.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-financial-district-place-of-money.html
Financial District | Manhattan | New York City | USA | 2014-06-10
The whole world look every day on this district: Thumbs up or down? Bulls or Bears? But outside of the stock exchange there is a living of leisureness. At the very south side of the Manhattan Island there is a very impressing memorial for the Vietnam Veterans.

"2.711 concrete slabs reach into the blue sky"

http://uwepetercom.blogspot.com/2007/04/holocaust-memorial-berlin-germany-2007.html
Holocaust Memorial | Berlin | Germany | 2007-04-30
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman. It consists of a 19,000 square metres site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m.