When I overhear someone in a public place usually I laugh to myself because their loudness is very amusing. However this morning, a man ordering train tickets at my train station was quick annoying.
He was taking his family to see "Ground Zero" and either is never rides the train or thought he had to talk louder because of the glass seperating him and the booth clerk. But he acted like he was going to a special, fun place instead of the sacred ground I still view the WTC as.
My neighbor, Andy, died there, leaving behind a beautiful yet still grieving family. I would rather not have people trivilize this place, in the same vein as seemingly just another NYC attraction. I suppose the same could be said for any place that's been memoralized for the dead. My sister just came back from Hawaii and visited Pearl Harbor while there. She didn't find it all that thrilling, maybe because it happened so long ago, or more importantly, she has no personal connection to the site.
Anyway, I looked across at a fellow commuter who was overhearing this man's pronouncement. She had a similarly bemused look on her face and I just rolled my eyes and went back to reading my book.
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