Posted on 01/04/2017 12:55:29 PM PST by wheresmyusa
About 50 million people visit New York every year and more than eight million live there but no one seems to have heard of The Teardrop...which is odd because it is a 100ft tall, 175-ton memorial to those who died on the city's blackest day.
Learning of its existence by chance, I tried to discover more from locals at Ground Zero, where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre stood until September 11, 2001, and was met with blank expressions.
Our search began at the World Trade Centre station, where a train took us to Exchange Place in New Jersey. From then on, instructions were vague - we had to catch a light-railway tram for eight stops along the Jersey shoreline to 34th Street in Bayonne and ask around.
Eventually someone walked by and kindly offered to call a local taxi firm on his mobile. He'd never heard of The Teardrop but luckily the taxi driver had. He drove us two miles across a wasteland which was once an army base until we came to an isolated quay.
And there, high on a mound, stood the monument - a massive bronze-clad block with a great gash down the middle into which is suspended a 40ft, four-ton shiny nickel teardrop.
(Excerpt) Read more at sott.net ...
Didn’t know that either.
Russia is not our enemy.
Interesting, never heard of it before.
Not a cheap memorial.
You’re right. I don’t think the Russians at large feel we are enemies. But i’m an America-first kinda guy, and i bet the Russians feel the same way. “Can’t we all just get along?”
;)
I just learned something today, and I am better for it.
Very beautiful. But of course, Islam is a Religion Of Peace, and this might make the Muslims feel bad.
I remember reading about this, but didn’t realize it had been pretty much hidden since it was delivered.
Vaguely reminiscent of those silly fake scrotums that dooshbags affix to their pick up trucks.
I knew about it vaguely from something I read maybe here on FR or elsewhere on the internet but other than that nothing. The out of the way location doesn’t help of course but maybe this article will begin to make it better known.
There is no "New York" Russian Teardrop monument,
There is one in Bayonne New Jersey however
Wow! On Snopes?! Yes, i bet that was a tough one.
Yeah, i caught that too. But since FR tradition is to not read the article, i didn’t want to look like a noob.
Really? It’s a tear - representing sadness, I believe. Get your mind out of the gutter, dude.
But but but!!!
That can’t be a real 9/11 memorial. There’s no star and crescent built into it and there’s no super mosque nearby.
Pretty impressive.
I see far too many of those silly truck scrotums on the road.
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