I received a link to the following today: Take Back the Memorial. I think the cause is a just one, although personally I would much rather see Americans rebuild the Twin Towers bigger and better than ever as a true testament to the dead of 9/11, the mere thought that the currently planned memorial will be somehow apologetic to our enemies makes my stomach turn. Here is the brief that was enclosed with the link:
The World Trade Center Memorial Cultural Complex will be an imposing edifice wedged in the place where the Twin Towers once stood. It will serve as the primary “gateway” to the underground area where the names of the lost are chiseled into concrete. The organizers of its principal tenant, the International Freedom Center (IFC), have stated that they intend to take us on “a journey through the history of freedom” — but do not be fooled into thinking that their idea of freedom is the same as that of those Marines. To the IFC’s organizers, it is not only history’s triumphs that illuminate, but also its failures. 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.
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