２０１１年９月１２日 月曜日
今朝は３時に目覚めたためTVをつけてみる。
US Openは男女とも決勝を知っていたが
女子決勝がLiveされていて観戦
そしてただいまオーストラリアのソーサーが初優勝 午前５時４分でした。
半年前には入院していたセレナが
準優勝も明るく復活インタビューを受ける姿がとっても印象的だった。
ファンになりそう！！
ゲーム終了後もセリナがソーサーに近づき話しかけるいい光景
ことしは花形の連中が早々と退いて
ほとんどTV観戦しなかったが
それでもラッキーなことに
偶然にも決勝が見られた。
シード９位と２８位もさわやかでした！！
Stosur vs Williams
そして明日は同じ時間に
男子決勝：シード１位と２位のジョコビッチとナダル
下馬評通りの決勝これまた楽しみです。
昨日は
中秋の名月観賞が週末と重なり朝から異常な人出そして夜には提灯を持った子供が歩いていました。
土日が原則外食日
写真のような夕食でした。
７万ドン２８０円お腹一杯でした。
普通は食後アイスクリームを注文するが無理でした。
食生活も段々楽しめるようになってきています。
夜はNY時間午前のテロ時間に合わせて始まった９．１１追悼セレモニーを見る。
ツインタワー跡の人工池の前で！！
ブッシュもオバマも夫婦で式典参列挨拶を！！
いろいろ考えさせられます。
悲しみと楽しみが同居するアメリカ
先進国ではこの楽天的で素直な米国が大好きです。
そして日本もベトナムも大好きですって思いました。
人生って結局
生と死のドラマ
わが生死の哲学はほぼ完成しているが
現実はどうなるのかこれまた考えさせられました。
Nytimes.comに投稿されていたとても長い文書の一部をコピペします。
A Day That Stands Alone
By JAMES BARRON
Published: September 11, 2011
Just as Sept. 11 was unthinkable, Sunday was inevitable: the 10th anniversary of a day that stands alone. In history. In memory.
Three-thousand six-hundred fifty-two days have now passed. At 8:46 a.m. — the time when the first plane slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center — 87,648 hours had gone by. Another 5,258,880 minutes. Another 315,532,800 seconds.
Once more, the families gathered at ground zero, where 2,749 died, and in Northern Virginia and in Pennsylvania, paying tribute to the 224 who died there.
Once more, there was an outpouring of grief. But there were also fresh jitters about security as the Obama administration’s top counterterrorism official, John O. Brennan, appeared on television news programs to say that the administration would “leave no stone unturned” in its pursuit of an intelligence tip that Al Qaeda was plotting to disrupt the anniversary.
“It’s not confirmed,” he said, “but we are not relaxing at all. This is a 24/7, round-the-clock effort by all elements of the U.S. counterterrorism community.”
The ceremony at ground zero brought together the officials who were in office 10 years ago — President George W. Bush, Gov. George E. Pataki of New York, Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco of New Jersey and Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani — with their successors: President Obama, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who said the attacks had turned “a perfect blue-sky morning” into “the blackest of nights.”
“We can never unsee what happened here,” the mayor said.
Mr. Obama read Psalm 46, which talks about God as “our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble,” and Mr. Cuomo read from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, the “four freedoms” speech — freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear “anywhere in the world.”
Mr. Bush quoted Abraham Lincoln on the casualties in the Civil War as he commemorated the casualties of Sept. 11. “I pray that our heavenly father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement,” Mr. Bush read from a letter Lincoln had written in 1864 to a mother whose five sons had died in the war.
He added, “President Lincoln not only understood the heartbreak of his country, he also understood the cost to sacrifice and reached out to console those in sorrow.”
There were also long moments of silence, first at 8:46 a.m., the time American Airlines Flight 11 struck the north tower, and again at 9:03 a.m., when United Airlines Flight 175 smashed into the other tower. Another silence — at ground zero and at the Pentagon — came at 9:37 a.m., when American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into what had been considered the unshakable nerve center of the world’s
most powerful military.
“There are no words to ease the pain that you still feel,” Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told relatives of the 184 people who died there.
Another moment of silence, at 10:03 a.m., marked the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. — the plane on which passengers tried to fight back, storming the cockpit and trying to take control of the plane from the terrorists who had hijacked it.
“There is nothing with which to compare the passenger uprising of 10 years ago,” said Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania. “It has no companion in history in my mind.”
“Their uprising marks the moment in history when Americans showed what makes us different,” he added. “We refuse to be victims. We refuse to settle for the term ‘survivor.’ Captivity will not suit us.”
Later, Mr. Obama — who left ground zero to travel to Shanksville —laid a wreath at the Flight 93 memorial. He and the first lady, Michelle Obama, stood for a moment of silence, then left to applause and chants of “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”
At ground zero, the silver bell was rung to remember passengers from Flight 93, as it had been rung through the morning to remember the passengers on the other hijacked airliners and the people inside the twin towers — office workers, custodians, people having at breakfast in the restaurant a quarter-mile above the street.
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Reporting was contributed by Anemona Hartocollis, Christopher Maag and Tim Stelloh from New York; Angela Macropoulos from Massapequa, N.Y.; and Nate Schweber from Atlantic Highlands, N.J.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: September 11, 2011
An earlier version of this article erroneously stated that plans for the memorial and museum at ground zero call for 8.151 tons of steel.
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