ABSTRACT
Looking down on the still-unbuilt cavity of Ground Zero, you can see, on the massive excavation's concrete floor, several hundred fluorescent orange rubber traffic cones, arranged to outline the two footprints of the vanished World Trade Towers. The frailty of this commemoration is a monument both to the excruciating incompetence of those charged with recreating the site and to the tenacity and uncertainty of memory. More than five years after the attack, little has been built and final plans remain unclear.
