The Height of Ambition

So what did you guys think about the article? Really, it reminded me about all the times when a great idea I had just crumbled before my eyes. But I can't even imagine what it could feel like to have built the towers, which did become a symbol of new york if not the entire country, and then watch it get destroyed. Then he places the blame on himself - The death toll would soar to 2,800 people -- many of them,'' a devastated Robertson would write, ''snuffed out by the collapse of structures designed by me.'' - I would attribute this to hindsight, but that's still a whole lot on his shoulders. I personally think that they did the best they could with the technology they had, but that's still not stopping the builders and designers from thinking that the deaths of thousands were caused by their own faults and lack of foresight.