I was astonished to realise that what was being done was to cart away the bits of bodies in the dust, to be dumped prior to building some grandiloquent monument to moneynmaking.

The idea that somehow building another skyscraper commerce is a way of registering that the terrorits have not won seems like delusion to me, very convenient for the people for whom moneymaking is the bottom line.

Leaving the space empty, with some of the ruins to crumble away in time, and before long ti become a place of quoet beauty, because thtais what nature does to ruins - that would have been a way of saying to the terrorists "You were wrong about us. We hold some things more important than money." And that would have been a way of turning that wishful hope into a truth, and something good would have come out of it all.

Perhaps the best thing to do would have been to let the families of the dead decide what shold be done, and respect their wishes.