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I was recently at ground zero. The only thing there was a little booth which was closed because it was Sunday. The booth was some "oral" history project where people were invited to come in and share their memories about events, not 9/11 in particular. One of the offerings you could listen to was about how an old couple had first met. Not much of a "memorial" at all.

And while my family was on the scaffolding overlooking the location of the towers, I was looking at the dust that still encased a nearby, unoccupied building. I wondered how much of the dust was the remains of the the people who were ether incinerated or crushed that day. Morbid, I know. But there were over 1,000 people, I believe, who had no remains to find!

Even though this was the first time I had been in New York since 9/11, the event lives with me every day. When I listen to all those crazy anti-war nuts, and a lot of just plain normal folks, I have to wonder how they can be missing ability to be empathetic. Didn't they ever wonder what they would do if they were on one of the hijacked planes, or if they would have waited to die in the fire or if they would have jumped out of the 105th floor? Don't the ever think about what they would have said to a loved one calling from a floor above the impact, a loved one they would never talk to again? Can the memories of Americans really be that short??

If we can't remember how the War on Terror started, how will we be able to win it? This will be a long war, but I fear that too many people just don't care anymore about anything beyond their daily existence, that we may lose!

I was looking at the dust that still encased a nearby

I don't know how true it is but one coworker has told me that the reason that building has not been demolished is because of that debris waiting to be dealt with suitably.

We honor the remains of our dead.

This morning I conclude that that hole in the ground is itself a memorial -- people come, they see, they remember, and, like me, something inside keeps expecting that hole in the skyline, no matter where it's viewed from, to be filled with proud, gleaming skyscrapers.

And when the time is right, it will be.

If you're around before they rebuild take the PATH train from WTC into Jersey City and back. You get a whole different view of WTC.