We don’t need 2000 acres...we can keep them in our hearts and in our history books. A simple statue or bronze plaque would only take up a few feet.
2,200 acres = 3.4375 square miles
This is utterly insane.
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Seriously,at the same time the government is "developing" Civil War battlefields into housing and golf courses?!!!
Unless someone plans a money-making memorial mall,I'd think an acre or two would be plenty.
4 planes were hijacked. On 3 planes, the passengers and crew patiently waited for the gubmint to do something.
On 1 plane the passengers acted as the MILITIA and took matters into their own hands to thwart the bad guys.
The gubmint cannot allow that lesson learned to get out. But cynically turning it into a highly visible gubmint project they can’t obscure the truth of the only way to beat the terrorists.
Terrorists will not stop when they die. They will stop when they think that their mission will not be successful.
Wait for the Bammy Statues and parks and roads.
FMCDH(BITS)
It’s happening because sob-story liberals are in charge. That’s how we end up with candlelight vigils and moments of silence and “pools of reflection” and other such squishy nonsense.
Instead, we should be developing weapons and plans to kill terrorists with bullets fired into their brains.
You know, I think I agree with this. I hadn’t really clicked how LARGE this memorial was going to be.
We have a memorial on our land—a granite monument with a bronze plaque marking the site of the first house built in this town. We own the land, but we’re happy to have the descendants who put up the monument or other neighbors come in and maintain it. And in fact, I have been maintaining it myself, pulling up weeds, pruning the old apple trees nearby, and so forth.
A granite monument, a plaque with the names, maybe a half acre surrounding it, and some sort of right-of way out to the nearest road should suffice for this Flight 93 monument and the brave passengers who tackled the hijackers.
I don’t know why the property owners won’t sell. Possibly because it’s family land or someone’s farm. Possibly because there are speculators who bought the land from the original owners in cahoots with the gov planners and want a big profit. In either case, just don’t take the land, and justice will be done.
Also, I don’t think any of us are too fond of that crescent moonscape pointing toward Mecca, no matter how many excuses they make for it.
I assume the memorial will be that large because the debris field covered 3-4 miles......
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Nearly 10 years on, I vote we dispense with another monument that will be built with tax money, kept up by tax money and maintained by tax money absorbing employees who vote overwhelmingly for the evil end of the political spectrum. Put a plaque up and move on.
We don’t need a 2000 acre park to commemorate anything. We just need to get the people who ordered it. We got Saddam. We need to get the short list of people around Bin Ladin too, Zawahiri and the rest.
In fact I think any kind of a park at all will do them an injustice. They were brave people, ordinary American brave people. This country is their monument.
Why on earth should it be that big and cost that much?