'Reflecting Absence,' The Indecency of the 9/11 Memorial
The September 11 Memorial is supposed to honor those that were killed as a result of the terrorist attack by 19 Muslim terrorists that flew airplanes into the twin World Trade Center Towers on Lower Manhattan. Instead of honoring those victims as a memorial, the project has snowballed into a real estate venture, and the 'Freedom Center,' a blatant exhibition of anti-Americanism depicting America's past and present blemishes. The exhibit, The International Freedom Center (IFC) will have SAME AMOUNT OF SPACE AS THE WORLD TRADE CENTER MEMORIAL.
Is This a Fitting Place for Apologetics?
No one claims that America is perfect. However, one wonders why should a memorial partially funded by HUD and advertised as a memorial for the dead should have a political agenda. Is this memorial a fitting place self-flaggelating apologies for the wrongs of slavery, the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, the Battle for Iraq, and the prison at Guantanamo, Cuba.
Anything and everything for which America can be blamed or even alleged to be held responsible could be put up in these exhibits.
Because odds are that, at the end of the day, this center won't focus on freedom's triumphs, so much as on its "failures — particularly those in which America can be painted as the culprit."
There were a series of public hearings with a variety of public hearings and submissions to HUD (http://www.renewnyc.com/FundingInitiatives/hud.asp) for approval. (See sidebar) How can anyone involved with the September 11 Memorial claim surprise?
The plan createdLower Manhattan Development Corporation Company is grandiose and spectacular as would be expected. The experience and the timing will benefit no one except America's enemies.
Rather than creating a memorial to honor the dead, the September 11 Memorial Committee, HUD, and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation have allowed undue influence by special interest groups. American taxpayers want a memorial not a finger-pointing, although magnificent, exhibition of anti-American hate at the site of a cathartic tragedy that is September 11.
Certainly those that have issues with America have the right to voice their opinions and create venues to their point of view. Do it somewhere else. Leave the memorial for whom it belongs: the dead.
Is This a Fitting Place for Apologetics?
No one claims that America is perfect. However, one wonders why should a memorial partially funded by HUD and advertised as a memorial for the dead should have a political agenda. Is this memorial a fitting place self-flaggelating apologies for the wrongs of slavery, the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, the Battle for Iraq, and the prison at Guantanamo, Cuba.
Anything and everything for which America can be blamed or even alleged to be held responsible could be put up in these exhibits.
Because odds are that, at the end of the day, this center won't focus on freedom's triumphs, so much as on its "failures — particularly those in which America can be painted as the culprit."
There were a series of public hearings with a variety of public hearings and submissions to HUD (http://www.renewnyc.com/FundingInitiatives/hud.asp) for approval. (See sidebar) How can anyone involved with the September 11 Memorial claim surprise?
The plan createdLower Manhattan Development Corporation Company is grandiose and spectacular as would be expected. The experience and the timing will benefit no one except America's enemies.
Rather than creating a memorial to honor the dead, the September 11 Memorial Committee, HUD, and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation have allowed undue influence by special interest groups. American taxpayers want a memorial not a finger-pointing, although magnificent, exhibition of anti-American hate at the site of a cathartic tragedy that is September 11.
Certainly those that have issues with America have the right to voice their opinions and create venues to their point of view. Do it somewhere else. Leave the memorial for whom it belongs: the dead.
posted by Eleanor © @ 6/19/2005 08:50:00 AM
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