Belatedly, from a post at Gates of Vienna on September 11, 2009:
After eight years that hole in ground in Lower Manhattan is still there. That’s more than twice as long as it took America to mobilize, rearm, go to war, and defeat Nazi Germany and Japan in World War Two.
In the eight years following John F. Kennedy’s call to put a man on the moon, the United States went from having no manned space program, though designing and testing the Mercury and Apollo spacecrafts, to a successful landing on the moon.
The original Word Trade Center took six years to complete, from the ground-breaking to the ribbon-cutting.
In the past eight years we have seen plenty of candlelight vigils with teddy bears and flowers and tearful remembrances by the relatives of the slain.
But there’s still a hole in the ground where the Twin Towers used to be.
The bureaucratic wheels grind slow . . . but not necessarily very fine.
