Posted on 06/21/2005 5:32:13 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
On Memorial Day weekend, three Marines from the 24th Expeditionary Unit who had been wounded in Iraq were joined by 300 other service members for a wreath-laying ceremony at the empty pit of Ground Zero. The broken pieces of the Twin Towers have long ago been cleared away. There are no faded flags or hand-painted signs of national unity, no simple tokens of remembrance. So why do they come? What do they hope to see?
The World Trade Center Memorial will break ground this year. When those Marines return in 2010, the year it is scheduled to open, no doubt they will expect to see the artifacts that bring those memories to life. They'll want a vantage point that allows them to take in the sheer scope of the destruction, to see the footage and the photographs and hear the personal stories of unbearable heartbreak and unimaginable courage. They will want the memorial to take them back to who they were on that brutal September morning.
Instead, they will get a memorial that stubbornly refuses to acknowledge the yearning to return to that day. Rather than a respectful tribute to our individual and collective loss, they will get a slanted history lesson, a didactic lecture on the meaning of liberty in a post-9/11 world. They will be served up a heaping foreign policy discussion over the greater meaning of Abu Ghraib and what it portends for the country and the rest of the world.
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Debra's website is here:
http://www.takebackthememorial.com/
(I'm sure her article was posted earlier....I wanted to post the link to her site......the hijack and revisionism she is standing against is outrageous!)
I was there yesterday with some freepers protesting.
I just saw that interview. I suppose he thinks that if he repeats the word "freedom" enough times, he won't have to actually answer any questions about the actual content of the exhibit. I haven't seen so much ducking and slipping punches since my last Golden Gloves bout. He must think we are really stupid...
It just dawned on me that it took 19 generations to build this country, and just one to bring it down. Petition signed.
This country ain't going anywhere, least of all down...
No, I know it's not going anywhere. But it's just so frustrating and sad that so many people have died to make this country great, yet one generation can do everything it can to try to screw it all up - and those people are just so, I don't know, ignorant and useless.
This thing with the Memorial is just getting started. Wait. This is how we do things in NYC. There'll be a big debate with lots of screaming, yelling and a few politicians jumping in along with a protest or two -- and then something great will get built. Hopefully a newcaster called Penny Crone will get involved -- I really love Penny.
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