Just sad...yeah, I guess you're right. It just caught me off guard as the very first shot in the series.

I have been going out of my way to preserve nice photos of the WTC that I find on the Web. I also stored the original Spider Man movie trailer, where the WTC figures prominently.

I'm hoping that some ambitious 3-D modeler reassembles the interior in a computer some day so that we can wander through a virtual simulation. I have a game that does this for the Titanic, and wandering through the entire ship is both fascinating and....okay, creepy.

The object of the game, when you're not playing on "wander around" mode, is to solve a mystery on board before the ship hits that berg and sinks.

I wondered if I could prevent the disaster...the Titanic hit that iceberg a glancing blow that tore the ship open. A little more to one side, and it would have missed. A little more to the other, and it would have struck head on, damaging the forward compartments but leaving enough intact to keep the ship afloat.

Had I actually been there, a "time traveler," the easiest trick would be to say I had seen someone fall overboard. The ship would stop to check, and when it would resume course it would no longer arrive at that exact deadly spot, or would do so when the berg had drifted on. The game did not allow this, but it did allow me to get into the wheelhouse, where I spun the wheel enthusiatically (which would throw the ship slightly off course and accomplish the same thing.) Unfortunately, the game was not sophisticated enough to allow for this and the ship went down on schedule. Me too. Blub.

But I digress....