105 Anon9742 We have a survivor tree at the OKC bombing memorial as well. People like the symbolism.
150 FusRoYoMama Serious question but how do you nurse a tree? Throw water over it?
28 jonnyclueless Someone out there must be able to spin a tree surviving into 9/11 being an inside job. Someone get in touch with Alex Jones stat.
30 rmachenw [...] and, in 2010, planted it where the towers stood.
Your wording says "where the towers stood in 2010."
3 bobo_ski It was also like almost destroyed during Hurricane Sandy!
5 El_mojado The white tree of new York. Sorry gondor.
8 EbenHSHD Visited ground zero the day after the Vegas shooting and there were flowers in this tree as a tribute to those lost in that attack as well. Seeing all of those names and actually being in that place and knowing what happened, learning of this tree and what it means, it was all very heavy. Then I saw those flowers. Now I haven’t cried in a long time, but just the sheer weight of it all got to me and it was a real struggle to hold it together.
3 tristanjones My first thought was 'I wonder what the odds are that in my lifetime someone mistakenly cuts it down.' Man, am I not an optimistic person these day.
3 SmashBusters I want four cloaked and helmed members of the Marine Corps guarding it with pikes at all times.
5 Nuclear_F0x I understand that *resilience* refers to those psychologically and physically affected by the attack, but what does *survival* and *rebirth* mean in the context of 9/11?
2 robearIII guess silverstein doesnt get to cash in on the tree-insurance...