9/11 air crew memorial

While New Yorkers and the feds still argue about what to do with the hole in the ground in lower Manhattan, a memorial has finally been raised in Texas to the flight crews who were among the first to die on that terrible morning that still resonates in the mind’s eye of most Americans. It’s complicated, and a bit strange, the statue at Grapevine, just outside Dallas-Fort Worth International, but it holds your attention.