Temple and Needle
A couple of weeks ago, the Seattle Memorial Temple crew asked if the the NW Rangers could help with the procession from the 2112 house where the bluehouse slayings happened to the place in Seattle Center where the temple was being installed proper. I went out with a couple of other rangers to help them.
It was a fairly emotional day. I know that excitement has been running high during the temple day, but a lot of that was replaced in the installation of the temple with a sense of the purpose that folks were there for. Pictures in the set include various views of the procession, the temple, the Seattle police chief, a bunch of temple/space needle views, and one or two pictures of friends.
It was good to see people out and about, and to see the installed temple. I put up a view of the templee with the space needle in this post I thoguht was nice. The procession was good, a nice 2.5 mile walk. There were a lot of police escorting us, many more than I would have expected for a parade of this size. I suspect that was related to friday’s killings.
It’s weird, I’m largely past the 2112 events– there’s been a huge amount of personal perceptual time since those events, but the story that someone read at the end of the events about someone dying and finding themselves in a dust storm moved me to tears and just thinking of that story still does, probably will for a while.