I was in New York City this past week.. went to see Ground Zero again. Each time there it looks different. Last that I went with a group of people there was more that made it look disastrous.. It looked like a terror strike happened there. It looked like thousands of people had died there. There were memorial paintings done by children positioned on the walls around. Those paintings are gone now.. Also gone is the silence that people have when they walk there. The grand real estate venture has begun.. It's not wrong to rebuild. I never thought it was wrong to rebuild. I actually liked one of the original ideas of making the building look like the middle finger--liked it until I thought only that it would be an immature response to 9/11 and the wrong design for the building. While I don't attack any plans to rebuild and move forward, it's beginning to get troubling that the attack on America seems to be ancient history.. and fact that bulldozers and backhoes move dirt from here to there at Ground Zero also help no one remember what did happen there and why it was meaningful. It's noisy there. No time to contemplate. Ground Zero has become another example of the fast-pased life of New York. The construction zone looks no different than any other real estate site venture project within the city boundaries.. But thousands still died there. The course of history was forever changed because of what happened there. I just hope that somehow in this whole rebuilding project, something is done to truly remind people of what happened there... something that doesn't include just a lousy placard or bronzed wall hanging, but something meaningful and real.