Yerusalyim,
This is not meant to be critical, but rather to explain my feelings and maybe the feelings of others when we see the pictures of those buildings.
The buildings, or the pictures of the buildings, remind me of the 3000+ who died that day. To me they stand for the plane load of people who died in the field in Pennsylvania. They stand for the plane load of people who died when the terrorists crashed into the Pentagon and they stand for the two planes with the innocent people who crashed into the two towers. They also, to me, represent all of the ones in all of the buildings and on the ground who died that day at the hands of those evil people.
Besides that, the buildings, to me, represent a cowardly attack from jealous, hateful, evil people on the symbols of American power, success, and prosperity. The towers were about our financial strength and the pride of our country in our freedom and our ability to do anything we decided we wanted to accomplish. They represent the total tragedy, and the resolve that followed, of the American people, to punish evil people who would dare to do such a despicable deed and to do our best to see that such evil people never again succeed in carrying out another such act.
The pictures of the buildings no longer are just pictures of buildings, to me, they are like a monument to all of the above.
Just my thoughts.
Borgfree