Lest We Forget: a 9/11 Tribute

[adventuresinlego]

As part of our 365 Days of Lego challenge we couldn't let the day pass without paying tribute to the heroes the world lost in 9/11's tragic events. I hope people don't find the piece too perverse, it's titled "Lest We Forget"

This and another picture can be found here: http://www.flickr.co.../in/photostream

Lest we forget.

Edited September 10, 2013 by adventuresinlego

[305Bats]

We will never forget,that's why they chose the date 9/11. I can't believe it's been 12 years and....they still haven't finished the new tower! If it were being built in Saudi Arabia it would've been done years ago!

[Kintobor]

When dealing with something like this, you're always treading on thin ice. From a build stand point, it's very clever! Having the towers being built upside down and use the ladder the fireman's carrying to get a sort of illusion looks good. However, I'm not sure if showing the towers was in the best of taste. It really comes down to how people perceive the build. I can see where the intention was, but you'll probably run into someone who takes this the wrong way. Perhaps if there was more to the scene, like little vignettes showing people recuperating after the events to help remove the focus on the towers? It's just the way the build is, the eyes immediately draw to the towers, when I think the focus should be on the fireman and the dog.

Other than that though, job well done.

[TomLego]

Those of us who knew people that died on that day will never forget. With that said, I also don't need to be reminded of it everywhere I go. Just saying, no offense intended.

[tomdobs55]

I think it's very well done. Having known people who died in the attacks and being from a firefighting family, I don't see in issue with having the towers represented as a memorial. I know I'll never forget that day and mocs like this, when done tastefully, which this is in my opinion, are very nice.

@305bats: I'm not sure what you're trying to say.:-/

[adventuresinlego]

When dealing with something like this, you're always treading on thin ice. From a build stand point, it's very clever! Having the towers being built upside down and use the ladder the fireman's carrying to get a sort of illusion looks good. However, I'm not sure if showing the towers was in the best of taste. It really comes down to how people perceive the build. I can see where the intention was, but you'll probably run into someone who takes this the wrong way. Perhaps if there was more to the scene, like little vignettes showing people recuperating after the events to help remove the focus on the towers? It's just the way the build is, the eyes immediately draw to the towers, when I think the focus should be on the fireman and the dog.

Other than that though, job well done.

The idea for this came to me a number of months ago and after looking at a number of "Tribute Memes" of varying quality, I realized that the more sparse the pictures, the more powerful they were, just like that image of the Falling Man which is forever etched in my mind. And thank you for your compliments :)

Those of us who knew people that died on that day will never forget. With that said, I also don't need to be reminded of it everywhere I go. Just saying, no offense intended.

I'm very sorry for your loss, I made sure the title of this post included the fact it was a 9/11 tribute so that people who didn't want to be reminded of it had the choice not to click and nobody was being fooled by what they were looking at.

I am not American. I also did not know anybody who died in those awful events. But that doesn't mean I don't have an emotional attachment to the day. I was barely 16 when it happened, living in Australia meant it was evening and on a weeknight, where I was home watching TV and suddenly it changed over and I saw from moments before the 2nd plane went in, in fact, it was that happening that made me realize what was happening, what I was seeing, and I sat there for hours, until about 12pm the next day, and cried off and on, not because it was my country, but because I stand next to my American Brethren and your pain was my pain on that horrible day/night-for-me. I can't imagine what those directly involved went through, I can only stand in solidarity with them in the hope they don't tell me I have no right to because I'm not American, and because I was just a kid at the time. My innocence was taken that day just like it was every single other person whose eyes were opened up to the horrors of this world and I can only hope you relax your anger towards me because I was only giving a piece of my heart to my American brethren through this piece to say Your Pain is my Pain, Your Heroes were my Heroes. I hope you can accept that with the love it's intended to have.

I think it's very well done. Having known people who died in the attacks and being from a firefighting family, I don't see in issue with having the towers represented as a memorial. I know I'll never forget that day and mocs like this, when done tastefully, which this is in my opinion, are very nice.

@305bats: I'm not sure what you're trying to say.:-/

Thank you, that means a great deal, and I am also truly sorry for your loss. As I stated in comments above your Heroes on that day were My Heroes too, and they bravely and unapologetically held every single ones of those buildings' inhabitants on their shoulders and did everything they could to save them and that is why I made this piece in the way it was made, it was truly and honestly made from the heart, with a lump in my throat.

Edited September 11, 2013 by adventuresinlego