http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/16/nyregion/16rebuild.html?hp&ex=1163739600&en=0546884f5d9e3c8b&ei=5094&partner=homepage
The above article is about how construction has finally started at Ground Zero. Here's my favorite part of the article:
Construction is not expected to be interrupted by the search for human remains around the edges of the site, prompted by the discovery last month of bones and bone fragments in an abandoned Consolidated Edison manhole. To date, 210 remains have been found in that manhole and two others nearby.
What?!? I guess they're leaving something for future anthropologists to do? Why aren't people's remains important?
But that's not what evokes feeling for me. What stirs my emotions is the fact that rebuilding is finally taking place; they are starting to fill that big hole in the ground. It makes me realize that I have not started to rebuild my life since then. Sometimes I just feel so locked in my own personal September 11, that it's hard to get out. Much like the remains of the people found in the ConEd manhole.
It's our job as survivors to let everyone out that needs letting out.
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