Remembering 9/11 and One World Trade Center, New York City, New York
Memorial to World Trade Center
John and I had planned for a while to take a trip to Swansea, Wales, UK to visit John’s older sister Phyllis. Finally, we bought two tickets from Air India. We were scheduled to leave Newark, NJ on September 10, 2001. We always plan to stay more than three weeks’ vacation as we wanted to spend as much time with Phyllis as we can, since Mom, John’s mother passed away in summer 1994 and Phyllis was alone by herself. So, we planned to stay with her until October 9, 2001, which was the day we returned home to Newark. ————————————
“Do you know the World Trade Center collapsed?”
The taxi man asked us while he took our luggage out from the trunk.
“No! It is impossible. We just came from World Trade Center.”
We responded.
“Two planes hit the twin towers.”
The taxi man gave us more information.
After greeting Phyllis, we ran in the living room and turned on the TV and found out that there were no Twin Towers anymore. We learned that the terrorists hijacked the airplanes and used planes as weapons to destroy the buildings and people on the plane and thousand more in the World Trade Center Towers. We also learned about the disasters in Washington DC and Pennsylvania. ——————————————————
After we came back home to Newark, NJ from Swansea, the first thing I wanted was to visit the remains of WTC to join others who felt the sadness from the loss of so many people. We also went to Jersey City by the peer at the bank of Hudson River opposite WTC to look at the empty spots where Twin Towers would have been. Our hearts ached and we were confused as to the cause of this destruction. We liked to bring friends and family to view the NY skyline and watch the 4th of July fireworks by the Hudson River with the WTC in the background.
I began doing the artwork relating to WTC, a few ceramic sculptures as a Memorial for the Twin Towers. I kept my artwork to myself. I showed them to only few people who were close to me. I did not want to provoke negative feelings or bad memories in others. I felt such sadness about this horrible event. It is the same sadness for any horrible event such as Holocausts, the nuclear bombs in Japan, the killing field in Cambodia, in Rwanda and other places in the world. We humans never learn to be civilized. We seem so quickly to forget the horrible events that took place and then bad things happen again. We kill each other directly and indirectly. The indirect actions of corruption, greed and power hunger cause direct action to surface. Innocent people will always end up suffering the effects. Hopefully we will be wiser and able to learn from past events and improve our human race to be able to live with each other in peaceful coexistence.
Twenty years have passed since the 9/11 events and I would like to share my artwork with others and express some of my thought on my Peace Project website.
Many thanks to my daughter and son-in-law who subscribe the website for me and my husband who has the patients to correct my writing.
The followings are the pictures of my sculptures I produced on March 16, 2002 I made especially as a memorial to the Twin Towers and the people who lost in these events:
The description of WTC memorial:
Two towers stand erect, supported by two long panels. Outside of two panels are animal designs in one side and the garden and plants on the other side. The long path between the two towers inside panels is blank spaces which can be the area that the loved ones or any ones express their thought in writing. And the corridor between two panels can be the place for children to play hide and seek.
I made this small-scale Twin Towers sculpture as a replica for loved ones or any ones who comes to mourn, let go of sadness and to remember the loss. I hope we can realize that we should enjoy and appreciate one and other while we are still alive.
Memorial to World Trade Center
Time to mourn
Time to cry
Wipe the sadness away
Time to remember
Time to live
Get up and go
Work awaits
I will go on
Remembering the past
With heavy heart
When you are apart
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, September 11, 2011, 5:57 AM
Lost Hope
Little girl feels
Little girl hurts
To feel the pain so young
Her innocent lost
Even though it hasn’t begun
We all lost our innocent and freedom
Innocent of hoping working hard
We will be better some day
But freedom lost
Sudden someone comes
And take the hope away
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, September 04, 2011, 9:45 PM
On Tuesday, September 11, 2001 a total of 343 firefighters died with thousands of innocent civilians in the World Trade Center and other locations. Their lives were taken away by fanatic, brainwashed believers of a distorted version of their own religion. If the hijackers believe in humankind and nature, they would not kill themselves and others. So, one should always learn to questions what one is told to believe.
I salute all the brave firefighters and others who risk their lives saving others. May peace be with the brave firefighters, all their families and the others.
Respectfully yours,
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Friday, August 8, 2003
I wish it were!
Something that have wings
To save him
I love butterfly
Deep in my heart
I sent the butterfly
To catch him
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Sunday, September 15,2002
Order from the Top
Sharp bayonet piercing on my back
As I am dying
Why do you kill me?
I don’t know you!
And you didn’t know me!
Oh! I forget
It’s an order from the top
If you didn’t kill me
I probably will kill you
Because I got order from the top also
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts Sunday, 8.28.2011, 6:27 PM
Mother liberty holds the twin towers
Close to her heart
Protecting World Trade Center
With her believe
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Mother Liberty, do we still breathe free in this land of liberty?
Breathe free with fear for this event has come
Don’t shed your tears for this human race
The lesson learns might make us grow
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 10:55 PM
What is the same and different between these two men?
One, they are both human beings
Two, they are both dead
Three, they are well known
Four, they both had a goal to be achieved
Five, one is nonviolent and other is violent
Six, one is spinning cotton on a wheel and other has a weapon
Seven, one is productive and other is destructive
Which do we prefer after we analyzing the lives of these two men?
History will record these two men’s actions when they were alive
I hope we can learn from these two people without vengeance and hatred
Let us teach our younger generations all over the world
To understand that we are all the same
If we harm others then we will harm ourselves in the end
Do not brainwash the youngsters!!!!!!!!!!!
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Monday, 9.13.2011, 1 PM
Flowers from my little garden
Floating in the air
Let each beautiful one
Touching each soul
Seeing beautiful things
Rising to the sky
Just wait for a little while
I will be with you all
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Monday, 9.13.2011, 1:20 PM
World Trade Center Remembered
World Trade Center falls
Becoming colorful Twin Towers
Teaching us
They are here
And they are gone
Thinking how good
When they are standing there
As we take things for granted
Even with the love ones
Or the cleaning workers
Or the others that faithfully
Do their jobs for everyone
World Trade Center
Becomes colorful
In our mind
I didn’t do anything
Why you hate me this much?
What did I do wrong?
Or did my fellow countrymen
Cause the trouble to the others
That I do not aware of?
These questions and thought
Become active
In my brain neurons
Start charging for reasons
Thanks to the Twin Towers
You make us think
I miss you
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts Saturday, August 27, 2011, 3:40 PM
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World Trade Center Under the Same Moon
World Trade Center Under the Same Moon
The moon rises over the night sky
We sit and hold hand tight
Looking at the moon gets brighter
And the sky turns dark
By the Hudson River
Once we stood here
Watching the moon
Over the World Trade Center
Our hand firmly together
The same moon
But now the new one rise
Under the same sky
And the shiny moon
Let us hope
Peace will come to mankind
No fighting, no killing
Let build new World Trade Center
Under the same moon
As our hands tightly grip
Bond us with each other
And bond us all
Let Peace stand strong
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Wednesday, July 04, 2012, 1:55 A.M.
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One World Trade Center 9.8.13 Part1
New York City, New York
On Sunday, September 8th, 2013
One World Trade Center
Piecing through clouds
Up high in the sky
Tall and slender
With beauty and grace
People all over the world
Admiring they come
One World Trade center
That is your name
Trade without greed
Trade with fairness
Trade with love
Trade with integrity
That is what the new
World Trade Center should be
Warm people hearts
With generosity and kindness
With these qualities
No one will want to take you down
Forget the past
Start the new
Let us all come together
With prosperity and peace for all
Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts, Tuesday, September 11, 2013, 10:33 pm
Link to One World Trade Center 9.8.13 Part 1 page
https://ingpeaceproject.com/remembering-911/one-world-trade-center-9-8-13-part1/
One World Trade Center Part 2
New York City, New York
On Sunday, September 8th, 2013
Link to One World Trade Center Part 2 Page:
https://ingpeaceproject.com/remembering-911/one-world-trade-center-part-2/
One World Trade Center Part 3
New York City, New York
On Sunday, September 8th, 2013
Link to One World Trade Center Part 3 Page:
https://ingpeaceproject.com/remembering-911/one-world-trade-center-part-3/
One World Trade Center Part 4
New York City, New York
On Sunday, September 8th, 2013
Link to One World Trade Center Part 4 page:
https://ingpeaceproject.com/remembering-911/one-world-trade-center-part-4/
One World Trade Center Part 5
New York City, New York
On Sunday, September 8th, 2013
Link to One World Trade Center Part 5
https://ingpeaceproject.com/remembering-911/one-world-trade-center-part-5/
One World Trade Center Part 6
New York City, New York
On Sunday, September 8th, 2013
Link to One World Trade Center Part 6 Page:
https://ingpeaceproject.com/remembering-911/one-world-trade-center-part-6/
Photographs and artworks by Ing-On Vibulbhan-Watts
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