I never realized how much until recently, but our perception of New York has been forever altered since that horrible day in September. I've been watching a lot more movies recently, and the towers show up in almost every movie set in New York. If you wanted to show the audience the setting was New York, you could just show the skyline. I recently stayed at New York, New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and above the reception desk is a huge mural painting of Manhattan's skyline, with those two giants anchoring the left end. My room had a picture in it too....of those towers. And on the New York website, the towers are an integral part of their logo...the skyline...now forever changed. Those two towers defined New York. And now that clean-up is ending, and reconstruction is beginning, it's hard for me to imagine anything else on that site, other than those two towers. Will it ever be the same? Probably not... Is it good that it isn't the same so we never forget?