The twin towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) New York collapsed following the 9.11 terrorist attacks in 2001. Some 2,800 people perished, including mor than 350 fire and emergency responders. The WTC site has another name Ground Zero. Since the 9.11, things have changed a lot in the United States. One thing is that they have stricter security check in some important public places. As a visiting scholar, I had experienced this myself when I was in New York last year. I had to go through strict security checks when I visited the Statue of Liberty, the Jewish Heritage Museum in New York and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. For those who visit New York, WTC is a must they will see. Most of them are curious about what the WTC is like now. I visited Ground Zero several times and each time I saw many people of different races tried to tear wider the hole in the fence and look into the WTC site. But there is nothing special going on there, it is only a large construction site, new skyscrapers are being built on the WTC site. Here are two of the pictures I took, I’d like to share my experience with my readers.

          
                 (This picture was taken on the 13th Sept. 2007)

                   (This picture was taken on the 27th Dec. 2007)