[Wuli]

Alert to everyone, the Ground Zero 9/11 Memorial is still subject to being hijacked by the liberal political elites in liberal NYC.

[cvq3842]

Thanks. I believe www.takebackthememorial.org is still finctioning, and is a good clearing house of info as well.

(Maybe it's mentioned in the article already - I only skimmed it.)

[CFC__VRWC]

Take Back the Memorial, an alliance of major Sept. 11 family groups, began at a time when LMDC's lack of focus nearly led to the placement of the International Freedom Center on sacred ground. Now, to the detriment of future visitors to the memorial, it appears that money has followed LMDC's misplaced priorities as evidenced by the allocation of $50 million to an unrelated cultural facility.

Trying to sneak the International "Freedom" Center in through the back door is what this looks like to me.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Thanks for posting this. I want the memory of those who perished in the attack to be foremost. I would love to see the Twin Towers be rebuilt exactly as they were, but leaving the footprints of the original intact. That is hallowed ground IMHO.

On Dec.30 I had the good fortune to be in NYC riding a subway with some visitors from Manchester, England who had just returned from visiting Ground Zero. They were clearly somber after their experience there, same as I was the last time I was there two years ago. They felt the chill go down their spine, and said it was frightening to them to consider the lives that were snuffed out.

[quant5]

The thought process of NYC residents is disturbing in itself. I live in New Hampshire and am a Bush supporting for one reason and one reason only: He is waging war which is supposed to happen after we are attacked by enemies. The though process of NYC residents is to bash Bush and vote for the flip-flop guy Kerry advocating 'engagement through peaceful dialogue'. Kerry voted war most of his career but flip-flopped on our troops in Iraq as we all know. That backward thought process of NYC residents is driving the failure of the current memorial. We should assign the design to residents of a different state that feel we should wage war against our enemies and honor our war dead.

[airborne]

If Donald Trump was in charge, it would be built back the way it was already.

Who's in charge of this clusterf#@k?

Whoever it is, " You're fired!"