Brandon’s Super Blog

Recently, the plans were unveiled for the four other buildings that will complement the Freedom Tower in the rebuilt World Trade Center. What I want to know is when the media is going to stop calling it “Ground Zero”? It’s weird that the media (always self-obsessed and patronizing) felt the need in the first place to dub the site of this terrorist attack with a name originally coined to mean the site of a nuclear explosion. However, it is even more weird that the same media (always trying to tell us what to think and how to say it) is insistent that we keep using that negative term. Maybe it made some sort of sense to call it Ground Zero on the day of and in the immediate aftermath of the attacks but not now…five years later. Just yesterday on the air Larry King referred to the construction site behind him as “what used to be the World Trade Center”. Life is returning to those 16 acres of lower Manhattan and as the new buildings rise it is high time we go back to referring to that place by what it actually is: The World Trade Center.

Shouts In The Piazza

Ever sense September eleventh I have pondered about what they will do with the site of the World Trade Center.  The other day I was wondering the same thing the person who wrote this article was thinking, when is it no longer ground zero?  Although i don’t necessarily agree with putting a new building up on the site but i do feel that something needs to be put there in remembrance and in hopes that this new building or memorial will change the name of the site.  I also have wondered when 9-11 will become a national holiday?  It’s been 5 years sense the planes crashed into the centers.  Is it to early to make it a holiday?  I feel something more official needs to take place in annual remembrance of September 11.