Video of the Day: The Healing Field

New York's Healing Field is currently residing at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn (until tomorrow). It's comprised of 3,000 3x5 foot flags that are standing 8 feet tall. Here's GerritsenBeach.net's glimpse at what it looks like:

There are smaller memorial fields currently located in Washington DC, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The first was in Sandy, Utah in 2002.

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I feel healed already.

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Says The Healing Fields were created in response to the attacks of September 11, 2002 (?!?)

I remember it being 2001.

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So they make a play on the deaths of 2 million people at the hands of the Khmer Rouge.

I sympathize with the intent, but I'm really starting to think that the US is just too tacky for its own good.

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