
{"id":20719,"date":"2011-09-08T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=20719"},"modified":"2011-09-08T14:48:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:48:36","slug":"lest-we-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/09\/08\/lest-we-forget\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest we forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/09\/08\/lest-we-forget\/1k-words-shenksvilleschool-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20723\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1K-Words-Shenksvilleschool.9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1K-Words---Shenksvilleschool.9\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1K-Words-Shenksvilleschool.9.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1K-Words-Shenksvilleschool.9-113x72.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1K-Words-Shenksvilleschool.9-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1K-Words-Shenksvilleschool.9-100x64.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLest we forget \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 there is another Ground Zero, the forgotten one perhaps, to some, but never to those who have visited and experienced the eerily silent, wind-tossed, flower-strewn meadow between Bradford and Somerset in southwest-central Pennsylvania where United Airlines Flight 93 went down on that awful day. A makeshift memorial quickly sprang up, erected by a thankful stream of prayer-sayers and grieving souls. On a chain-link fence, ordinary folks began leaving behind artifacts of gratitude and tribute \u00e2\u20ac\u201c this one most poignant to me on that 2004 summer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s day visit \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a Fisher-Price toy jetliner with the heartfelt thanks of two young students from the nearby Shanksville Elementary School, spared by the heroics of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Roll!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d passengers. Lest we forget. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest we forget \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 there is another Ground Zero. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20737,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions\/20737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}