Leveraged Intelligence

My mother sent me this.  I have researched this with Snopes – and it is true!

I had never heard of this before receiving it.

Why didn’t the press report it?


This is the "TEAR DROP"  made and

installed by the Russians to honor those

who died in 9 / 11 and a statement against

terrorism.  It is very impressive. 

The tear drop is lined up with the Statue

of Liberty .


Gift from the people of Russia ……."

Monument to the struggle against world

terrorism, artist Zurab Tesereteii"




….it is an impressive memorial and

statement against terrorism.


The walkway is made of stones.



Names of the persons killed on 9 11 are inscribed on the base like the Vietnam Memorial wall.  It is down in the shipping yards across from "The Lady".

Sometimes…I wonder about the media.

A dear friend, Padmini Natarajan, has written this fine verse to accompany the sculpture:

So many tears
shed to counter
terror
washing away
grits of
sorrow, loss
grief, pain
frozen in stone
a gift
to clean
to wipe out
years of hate
generations of
antipathy
one tear drop
that has cleansed
the carnage

Thank you, Padmini, for so beautifully capturing what we are feeling…