SFWA Nebulas at Ground Zero

[stusegal]

Probably very few of the attendees came in the way I did, on the PATH train from NJ.

Unbelievably, PATH has rebuilt their World Trade Center station  -  especially unbelievable as there is no World Trade Center, and absolutely surrealistic as the PATH train comes IN TO the giant hole which is Ground Zero.

As the train comes in, you realize you are IN the crater where the WTC once stood.  The photo below is taken from the PATH platform, which is about 40-50 ft below street level.  There are several layers of metal grids and screens, some fine enough as to not be picked up by the camera, protecting people on the platform from construction activities on the site, which is why there is a "hazy" look to everything in the crater.

To stand on that platform and look into that crater where once the WTC stood, that once-upon-a-time I would go through daily, and to remember how on many days I (a kid from a small town) would as an adult look up in wonder at those giant twin towers . . . . and now to see the enormous hole in the ground, the hordes of people like myself looking on with mouths agape, the giant "May We Never Forget" plaque at Engine Company #10 across the street  -  it just brings tears to your eyes and pain to your heart.

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[lauriemann.livejournal.com]

We also came into the site via PATH and we were very impressed. When I heard the PATH station had reopened, I didn't imagine it was quite so open-air.