“I know this is going to make you think I’m just being deliberately belligerent, but I really hate that term.”
“What term?”
“Ground Zero.”
“Oh. Why is that?”
“It seems like a euphemism to me. Like something they’d say in a James Bond movie. And it made it a destination. Like, ‘Let’s go down to Ground Zero. Let’s go to Rockefeller Center. Let’s go to Yankee Stadium.’”
“How would you like to refer to it?”
“I don’t know. The World Trade Center site. Where the World Trade Center was. ‘Let’s go down to where the World Trade Center was before terrorists flew a plane into it and caused it to collapse.’”