The 9/11 Memorial

When the new World Trade Centre is finished, New York’s skyline will look a little something like this. There’s been a gaping hole in the city’s iconic postcard view ever since the attacks of September 11 destroyed the Twin Towers ten years ago. More than take down the buildings, the attacks killed almost 3000 people. For many of them, the site remains their graveyard. For an outsider like myself, at first it’s hard to see that, beyond the rubble and construction, this is what it really is – a crime scene and a cemetery of those who were killed on that day. Many of those who are involved in the rebuilding…