American Indian Museum by Battery Park and memorials-memories

http://www.americanindian.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=visitor&second=ny&third=hours

Here is the link to the American Indian Museum with a beautiful photo and this stunning building is a place to visit.
They have powerful exhibitions including modern art.

I remember going down town after 9-11 and seeing the soldiers sleeping down there in the small park. Seems like a strange unreal dream and I doubt my reality...did I see soldiers there? Yes.

Anyway I love to walk around and I visit  the Viet Nam War Memorial made of glass at 55 Water Street with letters from soldiers and moving quotes. My most favorite letter is from a Ranger that never made it home. I love his letter and I am deeply moved every time I return to read it.   When I would do long distance runs I would run from the front door of my building in the East Village down the East River or West Side Highway and read his letter.  Sometimes I would run up the stairs over to the memorial for those that died in the first terrorist attack at the World Trade Center and I remember one woman was pregnant.  I miss these runs and I can't run anymore but I am so grateful I did these runs.

There are World War 2 memorials in Battery Park. My Dad served in WW2.

Also in Battery Park is the Korean War Memorial with the negative space forming a soldier's body in a visual eternity that is also a sun dial that marks the exact time the peace treaty was signed if I recall correctly. I remember I wrote the parks dept because they planted trees that would block the sun and they wrote me back and said that I along with Korean Vets had contacted them and they would remove the trees which they did.

*You could send in your suggestions for the WTC Memorial which I did and I felt there should be a feature even if it is on-line or available at the site to translate contributions by the family and friends --- memories, letters like the Viet Nam Vet memorial that reminds us of our soldiers humanity and their thoughts, loves and concerns.

I want the FDNY, NYPD, PAPD and EMS to be acknowledged with their rank which to date the mayor says is not going to happen.