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A tear for WTC victims falls from distant Russia
The Star Ledger ^ | Tuesday, August 23, 2005 | RONALD LEIR

Posted on 08/23/2005 9:24:44 AM PDT by lizol

A tear for WTC victims falls from distant Russia Memorial lands, in sections, at new Bayonne Harbor home Tuesday, August 23, 2005

BY RONALD LEIR JERSEY JOURNAL

Loaded on five flatbed trailers and led by a police escort, giant sections of the Teardrop memorial to those killed in the World Trade Center attacks in 1993 and 2001 were transported yesterday to the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor.

There, the 100-foot-high, 170-ton monument will be assembled for a dedication planned for September 2006.

Next month, Bayonne will hold a ceremony, tentatively scheduled for Sept. 16, to unveil a commemorative stone engraving near where the monument will rise, declaring that the memorial is a gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian people.

The bronze sections of the monument -- which its designer, Zurab Tsereteli, has called "To the Struggle Against World Terrorism" -- reached the Global Terminal pier on the Jersey City-Bayonne border Saturday after a three-week voyage from St. Petersburg, Russia.

Fred Worstell, president of Dresdner Robin, the Jersey City engineering firm hired to assemble the monument, said a special crane had to be brought to the Global pier to offload the several sections, which weighed from 28 to 63 tons each.

Before the pieces could be released from the pier, they had to be checked for any traces of radiation. Once cleared, the sections were lifted onto truck trailers for the final leg of the journey to the Peninsula.

Still to be done is the engraving of the names of more than 3,000 people killed in the two attacks around the granite base of the monument, Tsereteli said.

The monument will stand as the centerpiece of a waterfront vista park planned for a corner of the Peninsula.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; 911memorial; 911memorials; 911tribute; georgia; russia; wtc
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1 posted on 08/23/2005 9:24:49 AM PDT by lizol
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To: lizol

There's some irony in the fact that our formerly longtime enemy knows more about constructing a memorial than our own leftist citizens, who were fellow travellers with that enemy.


2 posted on 08/23/2005 9:28:24 AM PDT by babyface00
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To: lizol; ValenB4; anonymoussierra; zagor-te-nej; Freelance Warrior; kedr; Sober 4 Today; ...
Zurab Tsereteli

Thanks for the article, but considering the designer, I'm a bit afraid to see what this will look like. This guy's "style" is usually scary (though his statue of Marshal Zukov is impressive).

3 posted on 08/23/2005 9:28:32 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: babyface00

I still can't believe that this many years after 911 there is still NOTHING there to commemorate the fallen. That is a national shame.


4 posted on 08/23/2005 9:29:20 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: jb6

I think Afghanistan commemorates them.


5 posted on 08/23/2005 9:33:26 AM PDT by conservativewasp (Liberals lie for sport and hate their country.)
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To: jb6

I must admit I have no idea who the guy is.


6 posted on 08/23/2005 9:34:51 AM PDT by lizol
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That is a national shame

No argument here.

Of course, look how long it took for us to build a WWII memorial in DC...
7 posted on 08/23/2005 9:35:36 AM PDT by babyface00
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To: lizol

That was a nice gesture by the Russian people, and I'm grateful to them for it. At first I thought it was going to be erected in Russia, but I guess it's going to be in New Jersey?


8 posted on 08/23/2005 9:39:10 AM PDT by Aliska
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To: lizol

Why are they putting this thing in Bayonne, New Jersey, anyone know? Seems a bit like shunting it off to a distant location. Considering the fact that we haven't gotten our act together on a memorial yet, one would hope this gift could be given more prominence.


9 posted on 08/23/2005 9:42:08 AM PDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
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To: jb6
What I realized last night, watching the National Geographic shows on 9/11, is that nothing short of the video and pictures from that day really captures the emotions in quite the right way. I found myself getting enraged all over again and I think that's a good thing.
10 posted on 08/23/2005 9:45:29 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions (`)
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To: jb6
Here he is with a model of it:

And here's what looks like an artist's conception:

11 posted on 08/23/2005 9:54:52 AM PDT by Tennessee_Bob ("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
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To: Tennessee_Bob

I see now - Bayonne give one a straight shot view of the setting. Sorry, I'm not a New Yorker, as you may well understand.


12 posted on 08/23/2005 9:58:42 AM PDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
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To: Tennessee_Bob

It looks like a piece of damn crap.


13 posted on 08/23/2005 10:00:36 AM PDT by steel_resolve
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To: Tennessee_Bob

Welp I'm definitly not disappointed in my fear of what this guy's monument will look like. Scary. I wonder how much drugs he took in his youth?


14 posted on 08/23/2005 10:02:24 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: steel_resolve

You should see some of the "art" that Raleigh put up on Capital Blvd, at tax payer's expense of course, or the sorry excuse for "art" at the NC Art Museum.


15 posted on 08/23/2005 10:03:21 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: Tennessee_Bob

I like modern art.
I think it's powerful and evocative. A beautiful tribute.
Spasibo to the Russians.


16 posted on 08/23/2005 10:04:14 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
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To: lizol

He made the Stalin (at Yalta) monument that no one wants. He made the 3 story Peter the Great cement monument in Moscow (on the river) which was originally meant to be Columbus for Columbus, Ga, USA. They looked at it said hell no, so he chopped off the head and replaced it with Peter's and sold it to Luzkov (what the hell was Luzkov on when he bought that?). He's building a giant stone henge in Georgia, north of Tbilisi, equally scary.


17 posted on 08/23/2005 10:07:53 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: babyface00

Very true. Until Tom Hanks did Saving Private Ryon, the monument was a none-starter.


18 posted on 08/23/2005 10:08:36 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: jb6

You're kidding about the Peter's the Great memorial story, right? :-)))


19 posted on 08/23/2005 10:35:19 AM PDT by lizol
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To: lizol

I like it.

Thank you, Russia.


20 posted on 08/23/2005 10:39:08 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum
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