Wednesday walk challenge for 9/11 and Steem Basic Income Give away

Wednesday Walk is a challenge started by me, the idea is to get out for a short walk and get some shots of what you can see within a short distance of your home office or wherever you start. And this is my entry for this week, but first, let me explain the challenge.

This is my post for the Wednesday Walk challenge hosted by myself, let me first explain the guidelines

Try and get out once a week for a short walk, can be from your office, home or anywhere really and walk for a few blocks or a few minutes looking for things to get shots of.

Your walk does not have to be on a Wednesday I just ask if possible to share your walk photos on a Wednesday.

Try and get a few shots not just one

You can look for anything in general or decide on one subject you want to get shots off.

Try to limit yourself to a set distance or time from the starting location, say 5 Blocks, 5 Minutes walk or whatever and see what you can find in that short distance

Make a point of looking around and up and see what you can find to get shots of that otherwise you may miss

Do a post with the shots you get on a Wednesday and tag it with #wednesdaywalk, also if you happen to join, please leave a link to your post in a comment on this post and I will try and visit them all.

Following me and resteeming the post so more see it would be appreciated but isn't a rule just a suggestion, but you may have a better chance of receiving a Steem Basic Income Share if you do.

I am not strict on these rules and hence why they are called guidelines and not rules

I will try and visit, resteem and upvote all who take part in the Wednesday Walk, plus I will be sending @steembasicincomeshares to a selection of those who participate.

Actifit

A good App that works well in conjunction with the Wednesday Walk or any day walk is @actifit, which rewards you with Actifit Tokens and Steemit Upvotes, if you use the app to track your steps and do a post of your actifit total each day.

If you do a lot of activity I do recommend you check it out

The Kneeling Fireman

As this year 9/11 falls on a wednesday I am doing a different take on my Wednesday walk and sharing shots from a few walks, in Memory of all those who tragically lost their lives on 9/11/01, a date I think all of us remember so well if we were of an age when it happened, no matter where in the world we were on that day the news and TV images of this horrible attack live on in our memory, I remember being at work in Bosnia and being told to come to the conference room to see the TV broadcast, I did not know what was happening and when I saw the live footage I like everyone else watching was in total shock and speechless

For this post therefore I am sharingg a few shots of memorials around the city starting with the Kneeling fireman

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This very dramatic statue was originally, commissioned by the Firefighters Association of Missouri and cast in Parma, Italy, the statue landed at JFK on September 9th, bound for Missouri. Just as it was about to leave New York, the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center began, halting all air travel in the United States.

Rather than have the statue leave NYC after the attack it was presented to Federal Law Enforcement Foundation as a gift to all New Yorkers. With funding from the Milstein Family, it was mounted on a granite foundation and temporarily displayed in front of the family's Milford Plaza Hotel in the months after the attacks.
unfortunately, there was no way to permanently display the statue at the Milford Plaza hotel so the owners stored the statue for almost 10 years until a permanent location was found for it

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In 2011 a permanent location was found and theis statue has stood there since at 6 East 43rd Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues.
The statue is about 12 feet long and 5 weet wide and stands a little over 9 feet tall, and is so powerful and emotional to see.

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I think it is such a powerful tribute to firefighters who put their lifes at risk to protect us and I am glad it was gifted to and staye din NYC.

Of the 2977 Victims of 911 412 were emergency workers who responded, (343 Firefighters, 60 Police Officers, 8 Emergency Medical technicians and one NY fire patrolman)

May they all rest in peace and never be forgotten.

Another more well-known memorial in NYC are the twin reflecting pools at the World Trade Centre, around the pools are etched the name of every person who died on 9/11 and the 1993 attacks on the World Trade Center, a sight that when I visit I find it very heart wrenching to see

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And finishing off this post with this image of the Sphere, which is a cast Bronze sculpture, that was originally in the Plaza at the World Trade Center and survived the collapse of the World Trade Centre Towers and is now located in Liberty Park at the World Trade Centre area.

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The Sphere stands 25 feet tall and was made by German Artist Fritz Koenig

Steem Basic Income give away

I mentioned in the guidelines that from this week I will be sponsoring a few who join the #wednesdaywalk challenge with shares on Steem Basic Income

What is Steem Basic Income you may ask well here is how they explain it

Steem Basic Income is a social experiment to bring a basic income to as many Steemians as possible. Members join by sponsoring others into the program. Steem Basic Income is delivered by providing regular upvotes to member content. so I have decided to send some Steem Basic Income shares to 3 people selected through a random draw so on the weekend, to @ozkdawg, @starjewel, @constantshots, all people who joined in last weeks Wednesday walk.

And a special bonus this week @elizacheng will send one SBI share to @rossfletcher,

I would love to be able to give everyone who joins a Steem Basic Income share, but I don't make enough steem each week to do so, but I will try and share them around fairly between those that join the challenge

I hope a few of you may find this an interesting challenge and decide to join in.

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