Today, our local Chamber of Commerce hosted our weekly "Greeters" networking meeting at the local City of Salem Riverfront Park. It was outdoors in the cover of a pavilion. It was a great meeting, as usual.
However, the great meeting doesn't even touch the feelings I had when I saw how Riverfront Park had been decorated -- a better word might be "memorialized". This Field of Flags, one of less than 20 in the entire country, consists of over 5,000 flags dedicated to the memories of lives lost by service people on 9/11 and since then. During the meeting, we found out that this is the biggest display of flags in the U.S. in honor of those who lost their lives on 9/11.
The initial walk into the pavilion when I arrived was enough to make one want to break down and cry. During a break in the meeting, I walked around the flags and took pictures. The initial site of the flags paled in comparison to the feeling one gets while walking through them, and the sheer number just breaks your heart.
The pictures below do not do it justice.
To see MANY more pictures, I've created an album on Facebook that you can view (even if you aren't a Facebook user):
A town not far from here is doing one of those as well. I imagine there are many such of these Fields around the country this weekend.
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I would like to go back and see these, hubby. Maybe this weekend sometime??
Excellent memorial!
But I have a question: What are the faded (?) white-ish flags that look like they have the blue corner with white stars, with blue and red (?) stripes on one side?
Pic #3 shows them the best.
This is my subdivision!:-)
Thanks to both Wendell and Dave Huff for the answer.
Jeff
