The Armory

Quick­time VR of what it looked like

Many peo­ple have asked me why I cared so much about the fall of the WTC. More than any­thing, the image above, taken only a cou­ple of blocks away from my house, shows the toll here. Each of the lit­tle square is a piece of paper look­ing for some­one lost in the tow­ers’ col­lapse.

Every day, I walk by there, and every day, there is a lit­tle less hope. Yes, Sep­tem­ber 11th has taken its toll on me but I am thank­ful for the fact that I am still here and will always be thank­ful for that fact. The pic­ture stretch on this wall and then around the next two blocks, wrap­ping the build­ing in a con­tin­u­ous stream of peo­ple who were lost in the event. They stretch all the way up to my street cor­ner and beyond. Not a pretty sight and prob­a­bly the best way to illus­trate what hap­pened. There will be talk of a memo­r­ial, I am sure but to me, this is what a memo­r­ial should look like.