Ground Zero Apple Orchard

Today in New York Barack Obama and John McCain put politics aside and walked shoulder to shoulder down into the pit at Ground Zero. There's still nothing there, no new construction, no memorial, nothing, despite all the talk over the seven years since 9-11-2001. When there was an online contest some years back to submit ideas for the World Trade Center site, I submitted what I still think is the best idea of all: Plant an apple orchard there, a sixteen-acre apple orchard open to the public, with pathways and benches throughout. In the autumn when the trees bear fruit and the apples fall, each apple would be food for the hungry, and worthy of prayer and contemplation.