Crowds of jubilant students rushed to Lafayette Park in front of the White House on Sunday night to celebrate the death of one of history’s most infamous monsters. While the death of bin Laden will never truly heal the pain and tragedy of September 11, as patriotic Americans, we can all take pride in bringing a mass murderer to justice. We should also pause to consider how much the world has changed for the better since the horror of that day.

As President Obama speaks today at the site of the old World Trade Center, thousands of workers are building a new World Trade Center that will rise taller than the original to an impossible-sounding 1,776 feet in the sky.  A fitting memorial will mark the hallowed ground where so many died, but the rebuilding that is finally underway is the truest kind of revenge.