9/11 Today

I was down at the World Trade Center site recently after completing some business in the city. It's hard to take decent pictures that actually capture what it's like on a cell phone. The scale of everything is simply too vast.

Having been up in, underneath via the PATH, and in and out of the Trade Centers several times over the years, it's still hard to fathom two such significant buildings, ones I always made a point of pausing in front of to look up at, marveling, just about every time I was there ... are simply gone, no where to be found.

I was positively surprised at the number of people, particularly students, who were visiting there just a month or so ago - field trips of different kinds, I imagine - many of them obviously not local trips.

This piece deals with how millions continue to visit, even today. I remember seeing candles, so many candles in little glass cups, burned out, left lining the hole.

Peggy Noonan delivers a real tear jerker in this piece today, recalling how and how many people took time to say, I love you ... and goodbye.

You can move on from that and back to the unfortunate political reality we face today as Crittenden at the Herald weighs in on Democrat efforts to interfere in the showing of The Path To 9/11 and their continued reluctance to speak any truth.

Today, they look like incredibly small minded people with pathetically tiny agendas, like cell phones unequipped to deal with serious issues and big holes we face in America today. Though ultimately their tearing into the fabric of America with their distasteful conniving and whining will hopefully pale when compared to genuinely significant events like 9/11, their doing what they are doing disgusts me just the same, filling me with a loathing I'd prefer to not have to feel.

Comments

[lookin4info]

Wonderful Dan, thank you for keeping this alive and in peoples minds. We must never forget what happened to all of those innocent people. We must never forget and let our guard down again.

[Peg C.]

Wonderful post.

We must never forget and never let our guard down...yet so many are determined to do exactly that. For that reason, our chances of another, greater hit greatly increase. After the next hit, Americans will start to get serious, but it will be too late for some of us.

[Ericmd]

Nagin was absolutely right! After 5 years it's still a hole in the ground. Pataki has no decency.

[Sgt.York]

All I can say is that WT-7 (the one that wasn't hit by a plane) was observably brought down in a controlled demolition. I'm not speculating on who set the charges, for all I know it was al-Qaeda itself, but somebody did set charges to bring down WT-7.