In the summer of 2005, there was a ramp to nothing. To a hole. Today, One World Trade Center stands sixty-four stories high. That's 771 feet. With a floor a week on top of that — maybe even two, now that the weather's nice again.
Last September, before the bin Laden bloodletting, before anyone really cared to remember that it had almost been ten years, the words WE CAN STOP CALLING IT GROUND ZERO NOW appeared on our cover. Let's just say it's nice to hear some other people saying the same thing today, as President Obama arrives at the site of a miracle. Writer-at-large Scott Raab is there, too. Has been for seven years. Will be 'til they put the roof on One World Trade. Because, really, let's not talk about nicknames. Let's talk about that miracle. Let's talk about the rebuilding. If there was ever a time to read our all-access story of triumph, of bricks and mortars and men, this is it....
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