"Ground Zero" - I am still in a mild state of shock from the aircrash events of September and November 2001 here in NYC, working for a company once in the archaeology of Fort Drum, NY in the World Trade Center and at the time for Panamerican Consultants in historic Bridgewater, NJ and Picatinney Arsenal. I hope offense was not taken in this reference, speculation as to the November 2001 crash of mostly Dominican-Americans, widely, to perhaps have been the fault of following too closely behind the JAL (Japanese airline) taking off in front of it. We were working next to a model airplane field in a local drought next to the Raritan River. This definition online for "ground zero" appears unbiased and pretty accurate: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-gro3.htm "World Wide Words is copyright © Michael Quinion, 1996–2005. All rights reserved. Contact the author for reproduction requests. Comments and feedback are always welcome. Page created 24 November 2001."