It’s been seven years since that tragic day and still no memorial. Why is that? I understand that building/creating a memorial shouldn’t be rushed, but seven whole years? Some huge disconnect going on there.

Did you notice the title to this post? Seems the only people remembering 9/11, other than family and friends of victims, are politicians trying to get ahead. Mostly republicans. Mostly Rudy Giuliani. And mostly to play on peoples fears. And it’s usually used in conjunction with Osama bin-Laden™, Al Qaeda™ and the Big Black Bogeyman™.

Really sad state of affairs when such a tragic day is used.

Commentary: Seven years after 9/11, why no memorial?

By Terry McGovern

NEW YORK (CNN) — My son is 7 now. He was just about 7 weeks old when his grandmother, Ann McGovern, my mother, died in the World Trade Center attacks. [...]

Curious by nature, just like his grandmother, he has so many questions. “Where was she that day? Why does everybody talk about 9/11 all the time? What are they building there? Why is it taking so long?” I try hard to answer. [...]

We have lived through the political use and misuse of 9/11 for seven years and we still don’t have a place to visit on the site that commemorates our loved ones.

I really don’t care about the leaseholders or the commercial use of the property. I don’t want to look at Rudy Giuliani in front of a towerless skyline at the Republican convention. I don’t care that the two presidential candidates will visit the construction site on this seventh anniversary.

I want to be able to visit a place of peace that allows me to forget the politics and posturing and reminds me of the beauty of the lives that were lived and lost.

How can it be that, seven years later, this great New York City has not offered us such a place?