When is a Memorial NOT a Memorial?
Political correctness gone mad at Ground Zero
This Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks upon America, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will dedicate the massive, $600 million National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center. What Americans have not been told is that this “memorial” will remake Ground Zero so that it does not acknowledge 9/11.
Instead of acting as a constant reminder of the attacks, a symbol for us and future generations of the evil that struck, the death and destruction it caused and the heroism and sacrifice in response, the memorial will wipe out all evidence and memory of the attacks.
I haven’t studied this specific issue, but I HAVE visited the Flight 93 site more than once and noted a similar exercise ongoing there. Much of what made that place a true Memorial has been ‘placed in storage’.
One line in the linked article captures the sense of the effort I’ve seen in action for myself in Pennsylvania, and what appears to be happening at Ground Zero.
This is like banishing the USS Arizona from the USS Arizona Memorial.
I’m hardly an expert concerning memorials, mind you. When The Vietnam Memorial was in the planning stages I was with “The Black Gash of Shame” crowd. Then I actually saw it! But it’s the names and dates that make it a memorial – NOT the architecture.
It would seem that 9/11 doesn’t merit more than some artists rendering?
Category: Historical, Politics, Society, Terror War
This is the same kind of PC BS that caused the news outlets to quit showing the planes crashing into the towers: we wouldn’t want to remind people that radical Islam is a violent and dangerous dogma bent on world domination through terror and subjugation, now would we? Parts of the wreckage might remind people that we were actually fighting a war of survival instead of oil-thirsty imperialism like the left would like people to believe.
““How do we commemorate the countless accumulated memories of the attacks?” the 13-member memorial jury disingenuously asked in describing their task. Their answer? Eliminate all that we, the people, remember of the terrorist attacks.”
The article has it exactly right, must not remind anyone of who attacked us, and why they did.
It is, indeed, the same as banishing the USS Arizona from it’s own memorial.
“Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.”
If we erase our memory of 9/11, I’m sure we’ll be given another incident to make a memorial of.
My aunt was standing in the street when the second plane flew over her and hit the WTC… convince her it didn’t happen, why don’t they?
I wonder if they’d do the same thing to all the WWII Concentration camp memorials and museums.
It’s understandable. New York liberals are afraid.
They don’t want to offend the people who support the use of children as human shields.
$600 million???? While 9/11 absolutely is deserving of a major memorial, isn’t this a bit much? The Flight 93 memorial comes in at $60 million. By comparison, the Battle Of Britain Memorial in London, which also commemorates a major event that was a turning point for the entire British nation cost under $4 million when built less than 10 years ago.
That being said, I agree with Michael Burke. Future generations need to understand what it was like that day and understand what we went through as we watched those thousands of massacred innocents die.