What a difference two blocks makes
Even in last week’s steamy heat, I got the same chill I always get at Ground Zero. The immensity of the physical and emotional hole left by the 9/11 terrorist attack is hard to imagine from afar — you have to actually be there, looking down into the abyss.
But the other thing that’s hard to imagine from afar is how the sanctity of the site has nothing to do with anything around it. Even two blocks away.
That is where the so-called Ground Zero mosque is supposed to be built. So-called because it can no more be considered the “Ground Zero mosque” than, say, the existing New York Dolls Gentlemen’s Club one more block away could be considered the “Ground Zero Gentlemen’s Club.”

See the full article from “Baltimore Sun”