Just had a lovely holiday in New York, went about 6 years ago so we decided to do all the tourist things again.
Statute of Liberty, Empire State etc. Common places where you'd expect to see people taking group photos.
We were lucky enough to go to Ground Zero too. My DH has a friend whos pregnant wife died on 9/11, he wanted to be there but found it hard at the same time and wanted to be by himself to find her name and pay respect to her.
I read some of the names and was finding it hard myself (even though I was never directly affected) so I wanted to have a couple of minutes silence and sat down and was just watching people.
I was amazed at the amount of group photos being taken. The type of photos that people would take and show their friends and say "and this is us at Ground Zero" like it was a major tourist attraction such as the Statue of Liberty.
My husband found me and asked could we leave because he was angry because someone had asked him to move whilst he was reading his friends name so they could take a group photo.
Maybe I'm being unreasonable ... I'm not sure.
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to think it was disrespectful to take a photo here?
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LaceAndRoses · 03/03/2013 22:52
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