Paul is finishing his 3rd Masters Degree. This one is via "distance learning" (in this case via the internet), and it will be from the University of Missouri. We routed our trip westward so that we could visit the campus, and I took the photograph so that Paul has proof that he actually has stepped foot upon the campus. Such are the oddities of our new technologies.
Please note the columns. As we drove through the entirely unfamiliar campus, Paul said that we should be looking for six columns. Eventually, we spotted them. In the past, a tremendous fire had destroyed what I believe was a grand administration building and perhaps others.
The trustees decided that the remains were too dangerous and voted to raze all the wreckage and start over, but pressure from outraged alumni groups was so intense that the columns were saved. They stand now as eloquent statements of the grandeur of that which had been accomplished before, of the magnitude of the disaster that destroyed it, and of the persistence and fortitude of the recovery effort which built anew but still retained a clear connection the past.
A similar spirit should have been applied to the World Trade Center site.
