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Thursday, June 9, 2005, 6:23 a.m. EDT
Have you forgotten? What is Ground Zero to you?
And what should visitors see there on 9/11/2101?
This was 9/11/2001 at the World Trade Center:
With over a thousand already dead and trapped in the North Tower, the South Tower is attacked seventeen minutes later.
Looking to escape, a survivor looks down at the Globe from the South Tower and hopes to get out alive
While many were rescued
So many were not
So tell me, at Ground Zero, should we carve in cement and bury in an underground 50,000 square foot museum the names of the nearly 3,000 people that Islamic terrorists murdered that day? Should visitors to the World Trade Center's memorial be left to wonder what happened that day and where the artifacts of 9/11 are? Above ground, should we build a park with reflecting pools, a cultural center, and a 300,000 square foot International Freedom Center where visitors can hear lectures and discussions on why they all hated us, what we did to bring 9/11 upon ourselves, and the correct world-view future generations must choose so they won't hate us and attack us anymore? Why not also discuss all of man's inhumanities to man, especially those by Americans on Americans and all the other people in the world, since time immortal while we are at it in order to promote our own political agenda?
Does this all sound like a good idea to you?
Apparently, the president of the Internation Freedom Center thinks it is. Please read the following and the entire op-ed by Richard J. Tofel for he says the IFC and WTC memorial will be "roughly equal." How is something six times as large, above ground, and what visitors will pass through to get the "world's view on it" while on the way to the WTC memorial, roughly equal? And please, after you've read this, scan down to yesterday's entry and reread Debra Burlingame's op-ed and the links provided for some other comments on this issue:
"To be sure, the International Freedom Center will host debates and note points of view with which you--and I--will disagree. But that is the point, the proof of our society's enduring self-confidence and humanity. Moreover, the International Freedom Center will rise above the politics of the moment. It will not exist to precisely define "freedom" or to tell people what to think, but to get them to think--and to act in the service of freedom as they see it. And it will always do so in a manner respectful of the victims of September 11."