1. She may have been expecting to see what she saw on all the news channels on 9/11. When she realized that nothing was there, it took a minute for her to piece together what had happened from the moment 9/11 occurred until the time she stood there at that time. When she saw nothing, it seemed as nothing only. However, what had once been one of the busiest places in the United States, or even the world, now no long exists. It is just nothing. That absence is what puts the world in awe.
2. On television, her mind was used to seeing the actual buildings being attacked, or remembered how they were. If anything, footage of the aftermath still had piles of massive rubble to take in. When she arrived to notice the absence of this, it made her mind form a story about why it was different; to make her eyes adjust.
3. When she notices the memorials, she takes time to describe as meaningfully as she was able. Noticing and describing all the flowers, flags, paper cranes, and the rusted girder cross made that scene have a powerful impact on me.
4. She moves around quite a bit while she is visiting the site. She gets to view it from different points of view. Each location having its characteristics of the devastation, just as each person in the United States, or even the world, have their own opinions on ground zero.
5. If it was titled "My Ticket to Disaster", I would be under more of an impression that this whole event was a disaster, instead of an event that was tragic, but a stage of growing together as a nation. I don't want to think of it as a disaster.
6. The WTC used to be a bustling location with a variety of different types of people. After the sad event, it was that no longer. However, now it was returning to its original state, but for a different reason.
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