9/11, seven years later

We found those three neighboring homes on 26th SW near Westwood Village, displaying flags on today’s anniversary. No official West Seattle commemorations that we know of (please advise if you’ve heard of one) – we will be visiting the Alki Statue of Liberty later to see what’s happening there, given its informal role as a remembrance location, dating all the way to the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. On this date last year, the recast statue made its debut in a ceremony that was both an unveiling and a tribute (WSB coverage, including video, here); a year earlier, on September 11, 2006, the old pedestal stood empty, as the original statue (now at the Log House Museum gift shop) had been taken away so the recasting process could begin.

Kara September 11, 2008 (6:33 pm)

The house on the left is my grandparents house! They bought that house when my dad was just a baby now he is going to be 55 years old! The one in the middle is Chick who has also lived there for as long as I can remember!
You got a picture of long time West Seattle residents.

Terry September 11, 2008 (8:37 pm)

It’s a shame that West Seattle didn’t do more to recognize 9/11.

140.6 September 11, 2008 (8:57 pm)

I remember.

WSB September 11, 2008 (9:51 pm)

Kara, thank you! Co-publisher Patrick was going out on an errand and I just said, look for flags – he brought back this shot. The flags are what I will always remember most about the days after the original 9/11 … it seemed almost every home flew one. One of our neighbors across the street put a semi-permanent flagpole in his streetfront hedge right after 9/11, and every day and night for the seven years since has gone out in the morning to put the flag up, gone out at night to take the flag down.