Perhaps the only somber moments of our visit to NY City were those spent walking around the perimeter of Ground Zero. Construction is currently underway with some considerable signs of progress in rebuilding and transforming the site where the former World Trade Center towers once stood. As our family stood alongside the steel fences erected all around the construction zone and as we watched the construction traffic come and go and the many crews work feverishly on the site, we felt a great sense of honor for those men, women and children who lost their lives that fateful day in 2001. We also felt it a real privilege to be in NY City this week, and if by no other way than to stand in quiet observation of the site and the construction taking place there, to pay our humble respect for the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost just 8 short years ago. It was a somber reminder to us to NEVER FORGET.
