Changes

On Saturday we flew from Providence down to Newark, to start the long trek across country for to visit the progeny. We had a 2 and half hour layover before getting onto our next flight to San Francisco.

Terminal C at Newark International overlooks the New Jersey Turnpike and provides a very nice view of the New York skyline. While biding our time, waiting for our flight, I wandered over to check out the view.

Empire State Building, check, and then...

"Huh? What's that?" I said to myself when looking towards where the Twin Towers used to be.

It's called "4 World Trade Center" and it seems...

Out of place.

I think most Americans alive on the 11th of September 2001 remember what used to be there. So to me, the image was jarring.

To say the least.

I stood there for what had to be ten minutes, ten long minutes, just staring. There was a temptation, an urge, to get a little teary eyed at what used to be. At all of the changes in America, and the world, since that day. Most of those changes, in this scribe's humble opinion, not for the better.

But after thinking about it, the new building is rather handsome. It fills a hole in the Manhattan skyline. Yes, it's different.

But things change, things evolve. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not. It remains to be seen what the future will bring. Will this nation return to greatness? Or will we continue the slide into socialist mediocrity? Who knows? Not me, I am no prophet.

Things have changed. Things will continue to change. But one thing I know, no matter what takes the place of what used to stand on that spot, my motto remains -

Never forgive, never forget.

Until we live in a world where this can never happen again,