Five Years Later: NYC Unveils 9/11 Memorial Hole

From the Onion:

NEW YORK—Days before the fifth anniversary of the destruction of New York's World Trade Center by terrorists, city officials gathered on the site where the Twin Towers once stood to dedicate the newly completed 9/11 Memorial Hole.

"From the wreckage and ashes of the World Trade Center, we have created a recess in the ground befitting the American spirit," said New York Governor George Pataki from a cinderblock-and-plastic-bucket-supported plywood platform near the Hole's precipice. "This vast chasm, dug at the very spot where the gleaming Twin Towers once rose to the sky, is a symbol of what we can accomplish if we work together."

Oh, lordy. I laugh and it hurts and I laugh some more. Leave it up to the snarky devils at the Onion to get it just right.

Go read the rest of it, and thank God it's September 12th.