Five Years Later, This Still Bugs Me...

I'm not going to get into the sentimentality of the fifth anniversary of 9/11.

I respect you guys enough to honor your ability to grieve and commemorate in a way that is appropriate to you. For me to tell you how to deal with it would be the height of narcissism.

I feel it's a personal experience, so I'll treat it as such.

That being said, I must mention that I'm still incensed that five years later, the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site has still yielded nothing.

Five years after Sept. 11, 2001, ground zero remains a 16-acre, 70-foot-deep hole in the heart of Lower Manhattan. High above it, a scaffolded bank building, contaminated during the attack, hulks like a metal skeleton, waiting endlessly to be razed.

The wreck that still stands tall and the pit that still sinks deep sum up the troubled history of ground zero. A site of horrific tragedy whose rescue and cleanup operation was a model of valiant efficiency, ground zero turned into a sinkhole of good intentions where it was as difficult to demolish a building as to construct one.

Scrap the "Freedom Tower". Rebuild the World Trade Center. Stronger, and one floor taller...
- posted by Brian @ 10:00 AM