[My Dog Likes Me]

Excellent post.

I visited the WTC back in 1998. The "site" was huge. TV doesn't do justice to how much land we're talking about at ground zero, or even how tall the towers were.

I hoped that they would decided to establish a traditional national cemetery/memorial on the site, administered by the US Park Service.

My rationale is that people were vaporized there, so the visitor's now and in the future would get a better sense of "sacred ground" in that place. This would be more appropriate than incorporating a New Age memorial into what amounts to a new and improved version of an active center for trade and commerce.

To put it another way, Gettysburg ain't a farm anymore either.

[SgtSolomon]

I hoped that they would decided to establish a traditional national cemetery/memorial on the site, administered by the US Park Service.

That would definitely be a fitting tribute...as well as much more fitting than bizarre visions of air mattresses, let alone eternally darkened graveyards. I'm still not sure I see the point of the Gardens and Mattress in the Sky (or whatever it's called).

[Queen Jadis]

I visited the WTC back in 1998. The "site" was huge. TV doesn't do justice to how much land we're talking about at ground zero, or even how tall the towers were.

I hoped that they would decided to establish a traditional national cemetery/memorial on the site, administered by the US Park Service.

My rationale is that people were vaporized there, so the visitor's now and in the future would get a better sense of "sacred ground" in that place. This would be more appropriate than incorporating a New Age memorial into what amounts to a new and improved version of an active center for trade and commerce.

I don't like the pools. I would have preferred to have a memorial that would engender soaring heavenly feelings. Quite literally the pools make me think of what is below my feet...something less than heavenly. (Excuse my judeo christian concepts of heaven and hell).