Here's an editorial I got from the Internet... it really speaks
to me.  It's only one idea of what could be done... 

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Make it green

September 14, 2001

BY ROGER EBERT

If there is to be a memorial, let it not be of stone and steel.
Fly no flag above it, for it is not the possession of a nation
but a sorrow shared with the world.

Let it be a green field, with trees and flowers. Let there be
paths that wind through the shade. Put out park benches where
old people can sun in the summertime, and a pond where children
can skate in the winter.

Beneath this field will lie entombed forever some of the
victims of September 11. It is not where they thought to end
their lives. Like the sailors of the battleship Arizona, they
rest where they fell.

Let this field stretch from one end of the destruction to the
other. Let this open space among the towers mark the emptiness
in our hearts. But do not make it a sad place. Give it no name.
Let people think of it as the green field. Every living thing
that is planted there will show faith in the future.

Let students take a corner of the field and plant a crop there.
Perhaps corn, our native grain. Let the harvest be shared all
over the world, with friends and enemies, because that is the
teaching of our religions, and we must show that we practice
them. Let the harvest show that life prevails over death, and
let the gifts show that we love our neighbors.

Do not build again on this place. No building can stand there.
No building, no statue, no column, no arch, no symbol, no name,
no date, no statement. Just the comfort of the earth we share,
to remind us that we share it.

Copyright  Chicago Sun-Times Inc.

September 14, 2001