Business as Usual

How does the healing process play into all of this? Is there an emotional process to memorializing that’s not just the physical structure?

Sure there is, and one of the important parts of it is time. I don’t think these decisions can be made quickly, and some of the problem is that we’ve also been trying to rush ourselves because we don’t understand that much of the grieving process is a process of time, and much of the learning process is a process of time. We won’t entirely know what to do until a lot of time has passed, and the instincts that many people had after 9/11 may not have been right.

Should they have waited?

Yes, I think they should have. Of course now since the process has been so full of conflict we’ve ended up taking a lot of time anyway.

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