Reply #25: You are absolutely right, of course [View All]

[jumptheshadow]

What once was a thriving commercial area in NYC is now a pockmarked, ugly wasteland. It's like a wound with an infection that has killed the skin around it. We need to rebuild the commercial space there. Like many neighborhoods in New York, the Ground Zero area will undergo a resurgence once we have brought business back to it again. It may take a while, but it will happen. The violence of 9/11 was as much an attack against our economy as it was against our psyche. Rebuilding Ground Zero brick by brick is a much stronger, more focused response to terrorism than our misadventure in Iraq.

At the same time, the area desperately needs a memorial that will serve as a focal point for the millions of people who make the journey to lower Manhattan to stand at Ground Zero.

On a side note: I own a few pieces of clothing I bought in the WTC mall. They're threadbare now but for some reason I can't throw them out.