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Originally Posted by videoxpix
In the months following 9-11, there were tons of middle-eastern & asian vendors set up at the Ground Zero site, actually selling photobooks & DVDs of the days events, as well as, bootleg NYPD/NYFD hats & shirts. I personally thought that it was really fucked up that that was happening there.
I guess the city did too, as the only thing that is there now is a hole, a fence, a few billboards, and a freaking huge new/rebuilt subway station. When you take certain NYC subway trains, it is really erie as you come out from underground, and right into the hole, then into the station.
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From the prospective of someone who saw the whole thing first hand from 2 blocks south of it, It was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
When my wife, 6 month old child and I got to move back into our loft 3 months later, they were in front of our building just beyond the police fence. We had to show our id's just to get in and out of our building, the pile of rubble was still smoldering, and these fuckers were selling photo albums with called "Day of Terror"
I have to say I lost all hope in humanity.
Even more disgusting is the fact that they had to move the photo's they had put up on the fence surrounding the wtc site explaining how it was built and such, up so no one could reach them. This is because people were signing there names and putting shit like I was here on them. You couldn't even see the fucking photo's any more.
Not sure how many photo albums I'm in, because every time I came out of my building the tourists would start snapping pics of me like I was some sort of zoo animal.
I think they should have a video of the people jumping and the buildings falling running on a loop at the site. Maybe that way people would treat it with the reverence it should have. Would you scrawl "I was here" at the pearl harbor memorial.