9/11
I was drafting some thoughts on where we stand 4 years after 9/11, but I was just too tired to pull it together. Fortunately, someone else wrote what is by far the best assesment I’ve seen: Mark Danner’s New York Times Magazine cover story Taking Stock of the Forever War. Normally I quote the key passages of articles I cite, but this is the kind of essay that is so expertly weaved together that you have to take it all in – there is no paragraph or two that I can grab that would sum it up.
It’s long but well worth reading. If you don’t like reading a lot on the screen, go to the printer friendly version and print it out.
The World Trade Center site progress has been slow over recent years. Finally we are starting to see some progress with the WTC replacement the Freedom Tower. The Freedom Tower will stand 541 metres or 1776 feet once complete.