The rising

From the WashPost: “WTC steel rises at Ground Zero”


Two 25-ton steel columns _ one bearing signatures of American steelworkers who helped make it _ rose at ground zero Tuesday, a milestone in prolonged efforts to build the skyscraper that will replace the World Trade Center.As construction workers, politicians and architects applauded, a massive crane lifted the first, 31-foot-high column, which was painted with an American flag and the words "Freedom Tower," and set it over steel bars on the southern edge of the tower's base.