Revisiting Ground Zero; Honoring the Lost of 9/11

Two weeks after the attacks, I stood at the spot where I had stood on my first trip to the World Trade Center. I remember tilting my head back until my neck hurt and gazing up at those twin edifices standing tall and defiant against the deep blue sky. I thought they would withstand eternity… But all I saw was a thin haze of gray smoke, and it was the smell that got to me.