re: #167 klys

I don’t think I can make myself go into the museum part. But I would like to go to the memorial site itself. There are many things I’d like to see in NYC, I’ve never been there and have always wanted to go because it just seems like I should for some reason. But I just don’t think I can bring myself to look at all the broken and sad things there, it doesn’t seem like I have the right to do that for some reason, I’m not sure why.

Several years ago we went to Pearl Harbor when we went to Oahu/Hawaii for vacation. It was beautiful in an odd way. You have to get to the memorial by boat and the crowd we were with were chatty, kids running around, etc. But when we walked into that place above the USS Arizona everyone fell silent. It’s like the magnitude of the place just was, well, THERE, and even the kids began whispering if they spoke at all. There’s a gift shop at Pearl Harbor, but it’s a part of a museum that’s removed from the actual memorial site so it doesn’t seem so, crass?, I guess is the word I’m looking for. We bought some t-shirts and made a donation to a veterans fund.