Why are you celebrating buildings when thousands of people have died and others are still stranded? History is people, not buildings.
Or do you think that because the poster did not include a usual "liberal PC-standard Caveat" that the poster doesn't care about people?
I mean.. c'mon.. should the poster have said: "Some of my best friends are evacuees, and I'm so glad to see some great buildings and places in NO made it through" ? ?
It is an emotional time, so I think I understand why you would post this to me. There is a time and a place to argue with you the meaning of history and what constitutes a historical record, but I won't argue that with you academically at this time.
This Square is one of the centers of identity of this City. It is an icon of the best of New Orleans in so many ways. The Square is patterned on the Place des Voges in Paris. It is a place where I have walked with my sister and father in the beautiful sunlight and sometimes got caught in the pouring rain. I have received the Holy Eucharist and worshipped the Real Presence of Christ in that Cathedral on that Square.
I have had luxurious days where my sister and brother-in-law watched our kids so my husband and I could go down there and have coffee and beignets and some of the sweetest time together. So in part my love of the Square is personal, so personal it hurts.
Beyond myself its continued existence tells me that some day others will be there again. It tells me the city will live. I celebrate this survival because it gives me a holy hope for the future.