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I question reparations. Yeah, it was nice for the Red Cross and other agencies to give assistance to people in the beginning--without death certificates, it was hard to get life insurance payoffs and some companies were slow to give pensions to widows and children. But now, a year later, it seems odd. There are people, due to their loved one's job in the WTC/wherever, that are getting very large paychecks--enough to live comfortably on for the rest of one's life. On the other hand, there were those there who died without insurance/pension/etc. Would there be some sort of scale to decide who gets what--does a woman whose investment banker husband who left her enough so she wouldn't have to work get the same amount as a woman whose husband was a security guard without insurance or pension?
The last few times I was in NYC, I didn't care to make it to Ground Zero. I don't want to see that site without some sort of building on it, so I will have to just avoid downtown for the next few years. I have had the experience of seeing it from the air. I took the semester abroad, and my planes took off/landed from NYC. The WTC site was the first and last things I saw of the US.
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