Open Thread – Ground Zero

On my recent trip to New York City, I stopped at the Ground Zero site.  It was hard.  I’d been in the towers many times.  Some of my favorite memories of New York were eating at the restaurant Windows on the World, in the World Trade Center.  I remember clear as day sitting by those huge windows, looking out over the Hudson River across to New Jersey and realizing with wonder that you could actually see the curve of the Earth.  Many people who worked there never made it out alive on 9/11. I stood on the street by a…