"Anyone ever payed tribute to a lump of rock?"

(I'm not going to write a column about how Michael Schumacher is ruining Formula 1. I want to, but I won't. I will keep it bent up inside of me!)

Has anyone here ever payed tribute to a lump of rock?

I have. And it all started on September 11th 2001. I don't need to repeat what happened, but the images were shocking. America saw a national treasure and a symbol of America's work force go up in a ball of flames. It was horrific. It cast the darkest cloud in history over New York.

Gallantly, America refused to let the middle east win. Thousands of people lost their lives, and thousands more severely effected in one way or another by the tragedy. But just a few days ago, the mayor of New York unveiled a rock at Ground Zero, the graveyard of so many, to commemorate those who lost their lives on that day of terror. A vast amount of people showed up to Ground Zero, in what was to be a moving ceremony for everyone. I do wish I could have been there myself, and witnessed it first-hand, but alas, I did not know of the event at the time, and had no way there, what living thousands of miles away and all. I may be a great distance away, but I felt the emotion in the air from where I was. The rock was placed where the World Trade Centre used to lie, and the first building block for a new New York was in place.

But this is where the logic, for me, stops. To prevent a repeat of 9/11, the city have approved plans of a new skyscraper... the WORLD'S tallest, which has a much larger surface area and can be seen from even further away. Something there just doesn't add up to me. I know a lot of architects designed replacements. There was a certain building, I'm not sure if it's the approved one, which would be built in such a way, that at the time of day of the tragedy in 2001, the sun would shine through a pattern or window on the building and give a ray of light through the building, onto Ground Zero. I thought that was a fantastic idea.

So the new skyscraper will be the tallest building in the world. Because the war against terror needs high-quality personnel working with it. (I'm not even going to go into detail about the security guard who put himself through an X-Ray machine at Denver airport.) This is however, a unique building block for the whole of America. The symbol for American industry will be changed, and will tower over Manhattan, and probably various other parts too, judging by the size, and is a distinct logo of American courage. The foundation rock layed down a few days ago means that all of us can add a point to that card that says "World Vs. Terror", for it is the armies of the world that have the high, high advantage here, and we need to make that stick.

Thank you all for reading.