Centennial

I’ve been to the site. On a day similar to what it must have been like that day. It’s an incongruous spot: blink and you’ll miss it. Even if you know what you’re looking for, it’s easy to miss. Nothing out of the ordinary, no plaque or memorial, nothing stopping the ebb-and-flow of NYU students and passers-by in and out of Washington Square.

Nothing that says 146 people died here.

Nothing at the site says “this was 9/11.” But it was.

R.I.P.