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Thursday, September 21, 2006

My 9/11

My 9/11 didn't really start until after the fact. I went on a spur of the moment trip to NYC just a few days after 9/11 to help out with relief - not knowing exactly what that meant. I went with Buck and Jess and our friend Lenni (where are you Lenni??). Through God's timing we met up with others from Campus Crusade and were able to help out by setting up a home base/headquarters for others coming in to help in the days and weeks to come. It was quite an experience! I didn't necessarily get to see the fruits of my labor, but know that God used the work that we did there in huge ways peoples' lives.

Here are some photos that I took during that time...

Lenni, me, Jesseca, and Buck before heading out on our first day.

Looking from the outside in - days after 9/11 and the smoke was still rising.

Lenni and I were given the chance to see Ground Zero from a nearby building the day before I left NYC.

We can always find humor...we went on a boat tour and apparently the sun was too warm for some - this was just one of our fellow passengers with a box/sunshade/hat.

1 Comments:

Blogger Buck and Jess! said...

Wow, crazy to see those pictures again. At Kelly's show in Branson I finally got a sense of how those who experience Pearl Harbor and past wars likely feel when they see images of them. They did a montage of 9/11 and I just was begging in my head, "stop, please stop!" But like you said, the Statue of Liberty boat and the box lady is one of those that wasn't on the memory reel and is a smile in the midst of it all. I still have the picture you took of Buck and I walking hand-in-hand through Central Park. I miss NYC!

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