It is September 11th 2001 and four plane crashes iniated by radical muslim fundamentalists have shaken the world, aftershocks from which continue to be felt everyday since. A day that saw New York, the US and the World pull together in a way that lives on for ever saw a recovery from the attack on freedom as the Western World weeped.

Fast forward 6 and a half years and families continue to mourn their relatives and friends lost in the destuctive attack on freedom and New York, Washington and Pensylvania are still counting the cost of the attacks. Yet fighting continues over the large symbolic void which is the space left by the demolished World Trade Centres 1 through to 7. Architects criticise the design, banks and hedge funds moan about the lack of office space above the 82nd floor in the new building, and a small forgotten voice whisper of dreams of a memorial for their lost loved ones. This has culminated in the new ‘freedom tower’ only recently emerging from thirty flights foundation. This bitter squabbling has deprived the World of any momentum of a true staging post for a long term memory of those citizens, and hero’s the World lost that day and as each day goes on, a part of this memory fades.

Yet who cares? The new tower and complex will make many people lots and lots of money, which is exactly what the first tower was designed to do…. and exactly why it was attacked.