9/11 Memorial Controversy.....
First off, I'm not affiliated with this or any organization. I found it to be a good issue to support and if you feel the same please look at the website and sign the petition. If not, that's fine too.
There is alot going on in NYC surrounding the memorial being built at the site of the World Trade Center. I feel the memorial should be devoted to the lives lost and heroes of 9/11, the plan proposed is not. Here is a summary of what's going on and links to the site:
"The public will have come to see 9/11 but will be given a high-tech, multimedia tutorial about man's inhumanity to man, from Native American genocide to the lynchings and cross-burnings of the Jim Crow South, from the Third Reich's Final Solution to the Soviet gulags and beyond. This is a history all should know and learn, but dispensing it over the ashes of Ground Zero is like creating a Museum of Tolerance over the sunken graves of the USS Arizona.
The public will be confused at first, and then feel hoodwinked and betrayed. Where, they will ask, do we go to see the September 11 Memorial? The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation will have erected a building whose only connection to September 11 is a strained, intellectual one. While the IFC is getting 300,000 square feet of space to teach us how to think about liberty, the actual Memorial Center on the opposite corner of the site will get a meager 50,000 square feet to exhibit its 9/11 artifacts, all out of sight and underground. Most of the cherished objects which were salvaged from Ground Zero in those first traumatic months will never return to the site. There is simply no room. But the International Freedom Center will have ample space to present us with exhibits about Chinese dissidents and Chilean refugees. These are important subjects, but for somewhere--anywhere--else, not the site of the worst attack on American soil in the history of the republic.
The so-called lessons of September 11 should not be force-fed by ideologues hoping to use the memorial site as nothing more than a powerful visual aid to promote their agenda. Instead of exhibits and symposiums about Internationalism and Global Policy we should hear the story of the courageous young firefighter whose body, cut in half, was found with his legs entwined around the body of a woman. Recovery personnel concluded that because of their positions, the young firefighter was carrying her.
The people who visit Ground Zero in five years will come because they want to pay their respects at the place where heroes died. They will come because they want to remember what they saw that day, because they want a personal connection, to touch the place that touched them, the place that rallied the nation and changed their lives forever. I would wager that, if given a choice, they would rather walk through that dusty hangar at JFK Airport where 1,000 World Trade Center artifacts are stored than be herded through the International Freedom Center's multi-million-dollar insult.
Ground Zero has been stolen, right from under our noses. How do we get it back?"
The official website link: http://www.takebackthememorial.org/
The petition link: http://takebackthememorial.org/petition/
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I would love to see a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Native American genocide, slavery (African & Irish) & Jim Crow, Chinese/Japanese internment camps, and the Holocaust, etc... America could sure use the b*tch-slap. However, the Ground Zero is NOT the place to do so. I've heard almost all the arguments for building the memorial as part of the 9/11 memorial and none of them hold water IMO.
Both subjects are equally important, and I can see how one could draw a link, but it's just wrong to mix the two. It's like saying 9/11 happened as a result of these thing. I doubt the terrorists who acted in 9/11 were very concerned with Native/African/Irish/Chinese/Japanese-Americans and I'm 99.9% positive they weren't worried about Jewish people or Jewish-Americans.
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Both subjects are equally important, and I can see how one could draw a link, but it's just wrong to mix the two.
Agreed, that's exactly what the site and petition is about. I hope some find my post useful. :)
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Originally Posted by former_LV_dancer
Ground Zero has been stolen, right from under our noses. How do we get it back?"
I posted something about this not to long ago.
I think the only answer is Donald trump.
His plan is to build it bigger and better,at half the cost.
As an American,im ok with his plan
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I posted something about this not to long ago.
I think the only answer is Donald trump.
His plan is to build it bigger and better,at half the cost.
As an American,im ok with his plan
I remember that thread. This is not about the Freedom Tower buidling, but the memorial at the site.
On another note.....after living in NYC now I must say the Trumpster kinda grows on ya and I don't mind the guy. ;)
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Build something you all can agree on, but make it strong and classy. Otherwise the U.S> Government will take over the job and make the site a National Memorial.