Photo of the WTC Site, Six Years Later ---pix--->>>

[Stephanie]

Just took this photo from my window, thought you all might be interested to see what "ground zero" looks like today.

[billyoc]

1. That's me! I'm an Ironworker, see me waving?

:hi:

[Stephanie]

3. Seriously?

I'll lean out the window and wave to you in a minute. :HI:

[billyoc]

7. tee-hee, no, we don't work in the rain.

But I'll be there again tomorrow. :)

[Stephanie]

12. Cool!

Meet you at the Amish market around 2:00? :)

[wicket]

2. Thank-you

Breaks my heart :( Were you living there at the time of the attacks?

[Stephanie]

13. this is from work

I live in the Village, about a mile north of here

[Bluebear]

4. Ooh, the memorial looks stunning!

Very reverential and peaceful! :eyes:

[billyoc]

9. nono, that's the porta-potties.

:evilgrin:

[OlderButWiser]

5. Do you have

a window that opens?

[Stephanie]

15. that is open

it's raining, and it was my cellphone camera

[OlderButWiser]

26. I'm just surprised that

the windows in a high rise open. I didn't think they would.

[Stephanie]

31. the building is probably about 80 years old

it's 45 floors

[soleft]

6. Woolworth?

[Stephanie]

16. Woolworth is one block north

[baldguy]

8. How about this one?

Bush "celebrating" the aniversary of 9/11.

[Flarney]

17. That picture is infuriating.

Never mind the question of "who the hell creates a doormat with the American flag on it?" Oh yeah, people who want to wipe their feet on this country, its people and its Constitution.

[Blue Belle]

34. Wow... those statues look surprisingly life-like!

Madam Truesseu really knows how to work that wax!

[bananarepublican]

35. Is it legal to step all over the American flag? n/t

[City Lights]

10. Thanks, Stephanie.

That's not at all what I expected it to look like. I really can't say what I expected, only that that's not it. :shrug: My daughter and I are headed to Manhattan the first weekend in August, so we'll get a first-hand look.

[Ian David]

11. I see mobile weapons labs, fermentation vats, Uranium enrichment tubes... The missing WMDs! n/t

[billyoc]

18. nono, those are the laborers, smok-erm, eating their lunch.

:eyes:

[Ezlivin]

14. And they are still finding body parts

That's what is totally amazing to me: They "cleaned up" so damned rapidly that they skipped over doing a thorough job on taking care of the dead.

In fact, workers speak of taking body parts to the landfill.

It makes one wonder what the rush was all about....

[Flarney]

19. "clean up"...more like "cover up".... n/t

[bananarepublican]

36. They have to make sure that every last trace of thermite has been removed. n/t

[ReverendDeuce]

20. What the hell is going on there, exactly?

I always see pics of construction equipment and such... What are they doing, exactly?

[Stephanie]

32. God knows.

I guess they are laying in infrastructure - the PATH train runs from there and the subway lines are underneath.

[murloc]

21. The Onion beat ya to it :)

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nyc_unveils_9_11_memorial_hole

NYC Unveils 9/11 Memorial Hole

NEW YORK—Days before the fifth anniversary of the destruction of New York's World Trade Center by terrorists, city officials gathered on the site where the Twin Towers once stood to dedicate the newly completed 9/11 Memorial Hole.

"From the wreckage and ashes of the World Trade Center, we have created a recess in the ground befitting the American spirit," said New York Governor George Pataki from a cinderblock-and-plastic-bucket-supported plywood platform near the Hole's precipice.



http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nyc_unveils_9_11_memorial_hole

[file83]

37. LOL

:rofl:

[davidwparker]

22. Wow, Stephanie. I didn't know you were that close. Did you live there

or work there when it happened?

thanks for the picture.

[Stephanie]

33. I work there now, not then.

I live in the Village, about a mile north of the WTC, and did then too.

[rsmith6621]

23. WOW...Still an Empty HOLE Basiclly......

Just like bushes head....:hi:

[defendandprotect]

24. Bush bombs NYC ---

[NJCher]

25. thanks for the pic, Stephanie

I never saw it, even though I live fairly close. They'll probably have a building up before I get back there.




Cher

[Dukkha]

27. now THAT is a worthy monument to the Bush years

one big empty hole. Heck of a job there.

[file83]

38. Yup - pouring money into the bottomless money pit, and making ZERO progress.

[CrispyQ]

28. Shame.

[Madspirit]

29. k&r

Thanks for sharing this. It is a great picture.

Lee

[Mabus]

30. Wow

I don't know why but I'm surprised.

K&R

[cyberpj]

39. MEANWHILE....... The HUGE US EMBASSY COMPOUND in IRAQ is NEARING COMPLETION

New U.S. Embassy rises in Iraq
Conspicuously huge and self-contained but deemed inadequate for a disaster scenario, the compound is already taking fire.
By Alexandra Zavis, Times Staff Writer
July 24, 2007

BAGHDAD — Huge, expensive and dogged by controversy, the new U.S. Embassy compound nearing completion here epitomizes to many Iraqis the worst of the U.S. tenure in Iraq.

"It's all for them, all of Iraq's resources, water, electricity, security," said Raid Kadhim Kareem, who has watched the buildings go up at a floodlighted site bristling with construction cranes from his post guarding an abandoned home on the other side of the Tigris River. "It's as if it's their country, and we are guests staying here."

Despite its brash scale and nearly $600-million cost, the compound designed to accommodate more than 1,000 people is not big enough, and may not be safe enough if a major military pullout leaves the country engulfed in a heightened civil war, U.S. planners now say.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-embassy24jul24,0,7085179.story?coll=la-home-center