At 11:34 AM 10/4/01 -0500, you wrote:

Virtually everyone who visits the WTC site reports the same effect: news media. They just show broken metal. You can get the same thing at the local junkyard.

not if you ever lived in new york, ate lunch innumerable times in the courtyard below the towers, watched the pink and blue sunrise reflect off them as you took a dawn ferry with your lover, watched the city glisten from a quarter-mile up in the sky, felt your stomach flutter in vertigo at the sheer size of the towers against the clouds standing at the base looking up ... We are in tears looking at the cracked city. You were never there, or you have no soul.