[Sudetenland]

Okay, I know it's a little long and a bit preachy, but I felt this needs to be said.

Feel free to differ with me--I know some will.

[ken21]

memorials should be uplifting.

the hole with water falling is not uplifting.

[A_perfect_lady]

I especially like the line about “shared sacrifice” instead of individual greatness. I think you’ve expressed why I don’t have any interest in tomorrow’s circus. I mean, ceremony. It’s just going to be an arena full of people who don’t really seem to GET what happened, or why, or what we need to do about it.

[chris37]

The hole in the ground is a memorial of sorts.

It’s a memorial to the left’s hatred of America.

A mosque at that location would be icing on their cake.

[laweeks]

Hate to state the obvious, but it's a union job that will never be done . . . witness the horrible scam done in Boston with the freeway tunnels. There's no excuse for the massive finger in the eye of Americans by the union "contractors" for stalling, and stalling, and stalling, stalling, and stalling, and stalling,stalling, and stalling, and stalling,stalling, and stalling, and stalling,stalling, and stalling, and stalling,stalling, and stalling, and stalling,stalling this project.

When you consider what our military built in DAYS in WWII and then look at that insult in downtown Manhattan, you wonder why there's never been an investigation by SOMEBODY as to why there's still a huge hole there 10 years later.

[thackney]

Today, a decade later, we have a park and a giant gaping hole in New York City

It is frustrating it is not already complete. But to claim all we have is a hole in the ground is false.

Personally, liked this design better.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Aren’t most or all of the buildings around WTC 1 and 2 already re-built?

[Fiji Hill]

Don't worry. It won't always be a hole in the ground. Eventually, something will be built on the site.

[giotto]

Tomorrow in New York City, instead of a building opening, instead of a glorious pair of towers gleaming in the sunlight standing taller, prouder, more brazen and arrogant than ever, we will witness a ceremony in which there will be no firemen or policemen--the heroes who braved the nightmare in their efforts to save thousands of people, who strove to rescue and save lives and no clergymen to eulogize and pray for our loss--political correctness is the disease that rots our culture more than any other--none of those who work to make a difference in our lives standing beside those who lost their loved ones in the attacks.

This sums it up well. Tomorrow, for the first time, I will not commemorate 9/11. I certainly will not watch any of the televised events--nothing but maudlin posturing by politicians capitalizing on the genuine grief of victims' families.

The fact that the first responders and clergy were barred is incredibly disturbing. It eats at my stomach like an ulcer...What does it mean...What does it mean...What does it mean? I don't want to ask or know what it means, but I know in my heart, and this knowledge is more terrifying than all the jihadists and all the acts of terror they might commit.