sjrozan

Gathered with a bunch of my neighbors this morning to watch a crane move a WWI memorial statue over the trees in the park. The park's being renovated, and the new design calls for the doughboy to be at the other end, facing the other way. The move was objected to by veterans' groups -- apparently war memorials are thought of as graves, even when no one's buried there. But graves do get moved, and after negotiations the crane came and flew the doughboy in slow-motion through the air, to land on the south tip of the park, facing downtown. Still with his unit's flag in one hand and his pistol in the other. The spooky thing is, where he's standing now, he'd have had a perfect view of the World Trade Center towers a mile away; now he sees the blank sky where they were. Him and his pistol.

sjrozan I'm a writer, at work on my 11th book. This blog is a record of random and less-random thoughts. If you want to know more about me, check my website, linked here. I also had a blog going from spring through late fall 2004 about the publishing process for my 9th book, ABSENT FRIENDS. That blog's called "Progress" and you can find the link here. I won't make any more entries but I'm leaving it up in case anyone's interested; the process is more or less the same from book to book.
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