From the Newark Star-Ledger:

In Westfield, weeds have taken over the brick walkways around the 9/11 memorial and heavy traffic exhaust has left its mark on the obelisk.
In Morris County — where fundraising to expand the 9/11 county memorial is stalled for lack of interest — visitors can no longer throw coins into the pool around the existing monument, custodians said, because the homeless went wading for change and “we were afraid somebody would drown.”

Six years ago, on the weekend after 9/11, I was at a flea market on my town common and a neighbor said to me Tuesday morning wouldn’t be that big a deal because in this country ”everything happens somewhere else. For most Americans, New York is a long way away.” Certainly from New Jersey.