Today as they raise the tallest point in Manhattan, how many students realize the gravity of a now decade old event.

The youngest can’t truly know that One World Trade really is a phoenix in a nation that loves it’s symbols. Soaring after sacrificing itself to ash.

Even college age kids were in middle school. Do they see the real symbol is that the neighbood around Ground Zero has changed.

The number of residential spaces has exploded. 60,000 in under five years. A blooming community of people, choosing that neighborhood. Reclaiming it from the ashes. Hmmm. Hope springs eternal.

The story is rarely at the surface or above. It’s at street level.