If you were going to go to New York, and your plan was to go and be a Proper Tourist, none of this 'finding the real New York', or any of that, you're going to go and do everything that they blatantly manipulate you to do in all the guide books, would you go to Ground Zero?
I have a friend who went to New York in early 2002, and she queued up for the viewing platform the city had set up to see it all with. The site was still smoking in places and they pulled out the remains of two people while she watched, and afterwards she threw up, disgusted with herself for having wanted to see it.
Now it's 2006, and Oliver Stone is making a film about it because he believes it is an historical event now, so does that mean that Ground Zero is now something we should see? Somewhere where we should go, pay our respects and promise to be better people? In the same way people go to Aushwitz?
Or would it be the morbid curiosity of someone who watched the disaster unfold from the safety of a living room, some 5000 miles away?
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the viewing platform had gone when i went a couple of years ago, cos its now a building site (the plan was to build new office buildings on the site). but you could stand by the railings to reflect.
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