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Ten Years Later: A Tribute 9/11
My favorite 9/11 tribute in New York City can be found in Bryant Park. 2,819 empty chairs are set up on the lawn facing the site where the World Trade Center once stood, one chair for every life lost. The number of empty chairs captures the enormity of the lives lost and the stark emptiness of it just drives home the point that I hope is never forgotten. 2,819 people were here one moment and gone the next. 2,819 went to work or boarded a plane one morning ten years ago thinking it would be another ordinary day and they never came home.

Bryant Park says the total is 2,753, but rather than reflecting on the exact number of chairs there, let’s reflect on the fact that this is an epic display of affection for the victims of September 11, 2001.

What a beautiful idea. Hanging out on those chairs in Bryant Park is one of favorite ways to spend a sunny hour in Manhattan; to see them arranged that way breaks my heart a little, in a good way. As it should. Wrapping this day up in red, white, and blue troubles me; what’s important is the people.