Sometimes words have their immediate effect. We all sat in silence and there was a gloomy mask on everybody's face. Megan looked around and couldn't take the damp silence.

She fired her salvo, "Listen up Steve, I'll tell you something that I listened to. . . the view from my apartment was the World Trade Center! Now it's gone. They attacked it. This symbol of... of American ingenuity and strength. . . and labor and imagination and commerce and it's gone. But you know what the view is now? The The Statue of Liberty. The view from the south of Manhattan is the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that!" That's a Jon Stewart quote. Yes, it's a borrowed quote, but so what?" "When the buildings fall they raise the dust. . . yes, it hurts to look at the dust, cry when it hurts, but once the dust settles down, look beyond it, you may see the Statue of Liberty. The Strength."