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Right at the end of my summer in New Jersey this year, I made a trip to Manhattan that included a visit to the National September 11th Memorial (9/11 Memorial) and some of the photographs are here:        9/11 Memorial - Manhattan 

 

If you're looking for something a bit more wordy, there's the entry on my 'blog concerning the visit: http://jwood718.tumblr.com/post/58095274152/on-the-long-road-to-a-memorial-9-11-manhattan

 

 

 

 

              All images on this site copywrite R. Jake Wood 2007-2013.  Any other attribution so noted where applicable within the site.

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Links to things I have liked from other places - frequently NPR's website which is pretty obvious by looking at the addresses. 

 

 

Weegee: the one, the only - man with a camera on the "mean streets" of New York:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/01/29/145707800/film-noir-weegee-was-his-name-murder-was-his-game

 

 

Words to be avoided from Lake Superior State University:

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/01/144546187/an-amazing-trickeration-banished-words-for-2012

 

 

When the NYC subway system doesn't quite get built:

http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2012/jan/03/new-yorks-lost-subways/

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      September 15, 2011         

           NPR is keeping an eye -- or an ear -- on Joplin, some months now since the tornado ripped out a third of that city.

 

                http://www.npr.org/2011/09/15/140476898/for-joplins-children-tornados-effects-persist?sc=emaf

 

 

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   September 11th, 2011 

10 years since "that day."  Some of you may have followed the many different programs that covered the events of Sunday's rememberance. 

 

    Some of you may have preferred to just let it go by as just another Sunday; and who wants to remember all that really?

 

Circumstances prevented me from attending the memorial in New York City (yes, I would have braved the crowds but ---) so I don't have my own photographs to add to this site, alas.  However, there are some photos out there, and they are like unto what I would have taken had I been able.  Once again NPR comes to my "rescue;" NPR and New York's WNYC (for whom I'm still a sustaining member).  There are also links within these pages.

 

                        http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/09/11/140373696/live-blog-10-years-later-the-nation-remembers

 

           http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/09/10/140227310/sept-11-through-the-eyes-of-vii-magnum-and-life       

 

           http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2011/sep/11/decade-911-marking-10-years-terror-attacks-photos/  

 

 

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  Not Joplin related at all:  http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/05/25/136621216/dvd-picks-the-great-dictator

 

 

 

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                      Links about the F-5 tornado that hit Joplin, MO back in the spring of 2011, from right after it happened:

 

                        http://www.npr.org/2011/05/25/136645661/school-staff-and-students-cope-with-tornado-aftermath

                           http://www.npr.org/2011/05/25/136640524/amid-trauma-eyes-turn-toward-rebuilding-in-joplin

                                        

                            http://www.npr.org/2011/05/25/136636724/in-joplin-leaders-hold-tight-to-rescue-hopes     

                             http://interactives.wthitv.com/photomojo/gallery/373/1/aerial-photos-of-missouri-tornado-damage

                            http://www.npr.org/2011/05/25/136603187/for-reeling-mo-city-possible-2nd-punch-looms

                                http://www.npr.org/2011/05/23/136565373/deadly-tornado-strikes-missouri-town

        http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/05/25/136622888/many-hoped-to-be-ok-but-1-500-said-to-be-unaccounted-for-in-joplin

 Once upon a time, I lived in Joplin, MO, and to read and see this is - well, I don't have words to really explain.  What-ever I believed of Joplin then or believe of it now - good, bad or indifferent - it was the place that I called home for a number of years (and was the "big town" to go to when I lived south of there in the little town of Neosho), and that it has been so devastated is very moving and sad.  Those were streets I used to walk and drive down; it's possible that one or two of the houses I lived in could be gone.  I was treated at St. John's Memorial Hospital on a couple of occasions.  Going to high school, to college, and working in the area, I met a fair number of people; many still live there; some of those I met may have lost their lives.  My thoughts are with all in Joplin today.

 

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                   From the "I wish I'd thought of that" files:  These are beautiful and thoughtful images  --                                 

                      http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/04/04/134925211/surreal-scenes-make-big-environmental-statements 

 

                   From the "Hey, that's cool!" files:

                     http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/04/14/135413514/first-watch-abigail-washburn-nobodys-fault-but-mine?live=1

 

                   From the "chuckles" files: the Blue, the Gray, and the Wookie.  Oh! And a Sparrow!

                     http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/04/11/135318484/odd-photo-of-the-day-star-wars-fans-and-civil-war-reenactors

 

 

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                    Photojournalist Tim Hetherington killed while covering the conflict in Libya:                                 

         http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/04/20/135570922/photojournalist-tim-hetherington-said-to-have-been-killed-in-libya

                  http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/04/tim-hetherington-41-killed-in-libya.html

                          http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/apr/20/journalists-libya/

                                http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/04/20/135582163/the-toll-of-covering-conflict   

 

                   http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/05/06/136053477/the-perilous-job-of-conflict-photography