Looking back at the 21 years since 9-11, I stumbled across these words, written in 2005 for a story by then-N.Y. Times writer Deborah Sontag;
"Five years after Sept. 11, 2001, ground zero remains a 16-acre, 70-foot-deep hole in the heart of Lower Manhattan. High above it, a scaffolded bank building, contaminated during the attack, hulks like a metal skeleton, waiting endlessly to be razed.
The wreck that still stands tall and the pit that still sinks deep sum up the troubled history of ground zero. A site of horrific tragedy whose rescue and cleanup operation was a model of valiant efficiency, ground zero turned into a sinkhole of good intentions where it was as difficult to demolish a building as to construct one."
(It took another15 years or so for the hole to be filled, but her words will live on.)
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