Death of Liberty 9-11-01 by Syyd
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Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to be free.....
People of Renderosity, we witnessed the death of liberty yesterday. My mind will never erase the moment when the second plane hit the World Trade Center. The scenes in the streets of New York were like a war zone and it looked like a blizzard of dust and debris covered its inhabitants. We listened as Mayor Guiliani described losing 200 firefighters, the accounts of those on airplanes headed for death, calling from their cell phones to loved ones on the ground below. The scenes of pandominum as those left on the highest floors of the Trade Center leaped to their death.
Our nation mourns its greatest tragedy, and the thousands of people lost in the wake of yesterdays horrifying debacle.
To all those who lost loved ones, our prayers are with you, to the courageous people of New York City, the doctors and nurses, firemen and police, rescue workers, to the citizens who are reaching out as we speak to help, to the staff and crew and people aboard those four flights who perished, to those at the Pentagon, our thoughts are only of you.
I share my pain and anger, and utter hopelessness through this image I posted several months ago. I had a private email conversation with Jeff Howarth once about this image and he called it "The Death of Liberty". Jeff, no truer words were spake.
God Bless each and every one of us, and may we all survive to see a brave new world emerge.
Syyd
Comments (22)
desdemona
I am feeling deep sadness my dear, I do not understand how could so many innocent people be murdered...
TheWolfWithin
i heard this morning that corpses were being stacked on Ellis Island.......a fitting symbol to the slap in the face that our country has received from "a faceless coward" (quote Pres. Bush)........i've never been a flag-waver, but this.........this is the sort of thing that serves as a wake-up call to the spirit of 1776 that burns still within us all...........
foleypro
MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON US ALL....I AM AN AMERICAN I WANT WORLD PEACE...but when you get a thousand people cheering the mass death of human lives...like I saw on Palistian TV yesterday even kids were cheering ...it really is sad...AS GOD SAYS TURN THE OTHER CHEEK...CAN WE..WILL WE...SHOULD WE?.....NO
Jacko
I... :-(
Digits
A very powerful and moving image Syyd, I can see the great emotion within. You may be right but America has always come back in spades and stronger in the face of great need. I think we will finally do what needs to be done as a great country and with the free world.
King Korea
Dear Syyd, thank you for your impressive picture. Looking at all these incoming pictures in the Renderosity Gallery, I got the feeling that we all now stand together in solidarity and sorrow. For me this shows,that the spirit of Liberty isnt dead, the spirit is stronger than ever.
StefyZZ
I have no words to describe how shocked, sad, and angry I feel...What's happened is so unbelievable! A tragedy! :( I can't understand...so many innocent victims!! Your words and your image are so moving, I can't stop the tears again...
Dolphins-Dream
Where does Justice end, and Revenge begin? I shed tear after tear yesterday as I know many of you have as well, but let's hope our goverment will keep a cool head and do this swift and precise to the people responsible to this tragity.. HUGS to all of you
Antoonio
After reading your words, something small inside of me, died.
Syyd
Everyone, while I believe what we witnessed was the death of liberty, the death of our people, innocence and a certain sense of freedom that we as americans have enjoyed was lost. I believe strongly in the upsurge of patriotism we feel as a nation, and only hope and pray that the powers that be, can put an end to terrorism as a whole, not just for us as citizens of the US, but for people all around the world who suffer from this kind of unprecedented and violently evil kind of attack. I want a future for my children, and I dont want it to include terrorism in any way.
Heart'Song
Thank you
Buddha32
A moving and stirring image, Syd. We did not witness the death of liberty, however. Liberty was brutally attacked. Liberty was scarred, wounded perhaps. But liberty lives on in the hearts and souls of every American and every free-thinking individual in the world. Liberty is alive and well, Syd. And your children will live to see it, as will mine. We will teach them what liberty means and what it means to remember times like this when liberty is attacked and threatened.
Destiny
I thought I had no more tears left....I was wrong :(
Mahna
Very poignant. I too welled up, yet again.
picky
I agree with Buddha32. Liberty did not die! It will always live in our hearts and souls and our thoughts!!!!!!
Seven Wolves
Liberty is alive and well. And someone out there is about to find that out. Shockingly poignant image Syyd. We did take a hit. But this is the United States of America, we will overcome. The creatures who did this deed will never ever be so enlightened as to know what Liberty truly means.
saudler
What we witnessed yesterday was the price of freedom the united states is a beaming light of freedom . those cowards who do not have it will allways try to take it from us i am proud to be an American and a firefighter my heart goes out to all my fallen brothren and there famalies we can not let the act of one coward break the spirt of souch a great nation God bless America.
RodolfoCiminelli
Syyd: Good as all very born person I reject the violence, I understand what happens them, perfectly what you feel, in my country (Republic Argentina) in last decade we also had two terrible attacks terrorists, not with the magnitude that had that of yesterday in New York, I could not recover personally still of the shock, I cannot understand like sick minds from the darkness, plan the mass murder of thousands of innocent. Syyd personally is with you and with all the American friends.
dark_thoughts
my heart goes out to all of you....i am totally in shock from this....god bless you all....this evil deed will not go unpunished....they say blood begets blood...but darn it...some people ....need to bleed.....
Tammy
I know how we here are feeling, lumps in our throats all day. Keeping up good fronts for the kids assuring them they are safe when we have our doubts ourself now. We walk around with sick feelings in the pits of our stomach. I cant even imagine how those of you in NY must feel, our thoughts and prayers are with you and we wish there was more we could do.
SkoolDaze
I am simply overwhelmed by this image... this is very moving...
jasminre
...my English is not so well, so please sorry because I will not say to much, but your picture and your words can say what I am feeling together with all peoples from US...Thank you for your post...