Monday, May 28, 2007

Memorial Day Wish: Enough With "Ground Zero"

Here's a list of concepts, events, and products currently using the phrase "ground zero"
  • Lower Manhattan "revitalization" (which seems to have benefited whom?)
  • Baseball caps embroidered with two lost buildings and the words "ground zero". (I never see anyone who has the cojones to be seen buying one of these, or the accompanying $5 brochure, "Day of Terror"). Next stop on the tour of tastelessness? Maybe a t-shirt that says, "My grandparents visited ground zero and all I got was this lousy t-shirt?"
  • Firms moving into 7 World Trade Center
  • A very sad, possibly un-winnable, war

How about a belated stop to this? Ground zero long gone, more than 5 years since the last beam was trailered away.

It is not the neighborhood where we live or work, it is not a marketing concept (even for political action).

And many have thought of better ways to honor people's memories.

Whoa, It Has Been A While

I've been working on another writing project...but I didn't realize I hadn't posted for a month...more to follow.