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.
Your comments lead to a point we should advocate - get the U.S. Congress to step in and take over control of the funding and building of the memorial and the 9/11 museum at Ground Zero.