Posted on 07/10/2011 6:56:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Water pours through the north memorial pool at Ground Zero.
On Sept. 12, 2011, when the public is allowed to step onto the World Trade Center site for the first time in 10 years, the approach will be more pedestrian than poignant.
Visitors will pass through police screening gates and walk past barriers designed to prevent bombs from tearing through the site again. But this sobering reintroduction to the World Trade Center site is perhaps a fitting transition from the past decade—when the public's last direct experience of the site was a morning of terror—to a new era.
As visitors emerge from the screening, they will encounter a sweep of trees that one day will rise to form a canopy filtering light and sound. As they approach the footprints of the towers destroyed during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, rushing water will mute the sounds of the surrounding city. They will find voids where the buildings once stood, an emptiness now filled with waterfalls.
The Wall Street Journal recently toured the site with architect Michael Arad and the president and CEO of the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum, Joe Daniels.
Even though the opening is only two months away, the site remains primarily a construction zone. More than 500 neon-clad workers are racing to make the 10th-anniversary deadline; on Monday, the public can begin reserving time slots for visits.
The challenges to arriving at this moment have been legion: logistical, emotional, political. At several points, as costs swelled past $1 billion and donations withered, there were questions about whether the memorial would be built at all.
But as the 10th anniversary approached, people realized "it is not up to anybody on this project whether the world is going to check in on us," Mr. Daniels said.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Did I miss something? I recall the bombing in '93, but that was a van in the parking garage.
Otherwise, they'd better have a dome.
Designed to remind us that 9/11 has cost us far more than a building and the horror and tragedy of the loss of lives that day. It has also cost us our privacy and quite a few of our freedoms. Every since the day the Smirking Chimp started creating his new programs to be used against us {us meaning law abiding U.S. Citizens} & said you are either with us or the terrorist another war was declared by our own government upon us to take away our rights. Those rights eliminated are ones such as to now allowing police to do searches without probable cause and warrants.
One of the goals of terrorism is to cause fear and panic which in turn causes police to impose restrictions upon once free citizens. In that respect they accomplished that mission on 9/11 with the help of our government.
I have a better idea. Allow citizens of NYC and visitors to the site to conceal carry.
The could have had this site up and running ten years
ago, just leave the rubble where it was and let people
see the magnitude of destruction.
See the magnitude of destruction.....
And realize that thousands are still entombed there.
Not some slick presentation with air conditioned
restrooms...
I wish you would move to another country. Unreconstructed ... Instead of your juvenile insults, do something about it or are you too busy snacking and watching reality TV?
Well I could say what I wish you could do but I wont.
BTW I want to remind you that many of the ideas Obama & friends comes up with are the same stuff Bush tried as well. Enjoying TSA, DHS, Patriot Act? Feel more secure now that the liberals can use to abuse? Comprehend what has happened because of it?
As visitors emerge from the screening, they will encounter a sweep of trees that one day will rise to form a canopy filtering light and sound. As they approach the footprints of the towers destroyed during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, rushing water will mute the sounds of the surrounding city. They will find voids where the buildings once stood, an emptiness now filled with waterfalls.I don't wanna stir up trouble, of course, but I was immediately reminded of the Koran's description of paradise:
"What is the description of Paradise promised to the righteous like? It has rivers flowing under it, and its foodstuffs and cool shade never fail. That is the final fate of those who have done their duty. But the final fate of the disbelievers is the Fire." (Surat ar-Ra'd, 35)
Natural beauty and greenery are among Paradise's wonderful blessings. Mansions built in gardens, right next to springs, are another beauty. Paradise, in which there is "neither burning sun nor bitter cold" (Surat al-Insan, 13), has such a pleasant climate that no one is made uncomfortable. It contains no exhausting sweaty heat or freezing cold. In Paradise, Allah will admit believers into "cool, refreshing shade" (Surat an-Nisa', 57)
It is not what the people of America ... but it is what we get... and nothing more... It is not good enough and never will be until torn down and properly replaced...
I could not agree more. We don't need some state-of-art super-tower or other super-architectual monument. The WTC property should remain empty. The rubble should remain on site in full view for all to view.
Make it hallowed ground with NO construction and no development. Let all the world see that empty ground as a reminder of the atrocity of Islamic barbarism.
Twenty dollars per person poorer. I understand that's the charge to see the memorial.
I disagree. Life goes on.
They will CHARGE to see the memorial? That is frankly an abomination.
The OKC memorial is free unless you want to go to the indoor museum portion. I understand a need to keep it open/staffing etc., but do what they do....at least have the memorial itself free.
It’s a desecration to charge.
!00% dead on! Our country is losing the battle through incrementalism. Another year of Obamanation??? Looking forward to 2012 election....will make Carter’s defeat look minor...either that, or we lose America.
I remember the days after 9/11. The entire wreck of a site was behind a barrier, and tourists were coming to snap pictures between the gaps in the fence. Still a tourist attraction, only a morbid one.
I think I will pass on the TSA patdown.
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