Yesterday the Washington Times posted an article on the construction now going on at Ground Zero in New York City.
The article reports:
“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.”
Amazing.
The article goes on:
“Replacing all reminders of the attacks will be two immense “voids” with gigantic subterranean waterfalls designed to express exclusively, as per architect Michael Arad, the continuing “absence in our lives caused by these deaths.”
“About 500 trees will be planted upon the site. They are, we are told by memorial officials, “traditional symbols of the rejuvenation of life.” They also will eradicate all trace and memory of what stood there for 30 years and its destruction on Sept. 11.”
Wow. It gets even more amazing when you realize that they are building all these fountains and no restrooms (rightwinggranny.com) as reported on May 22. The part of the facility that includes the bathrooms will open on the fall of 2012. That’s an awfully long time to wait for a bathroom.
An example of some of the omissions at the Ground Zero memorial:
“The National September 11 Memorial at the WTC will not include the iconic WTC “Sphere” – again, exactly because it is iconic. “The Sphere” stood in the center of the WTC plaza for 30 years as a symbol of world peace. On 9/11, though badly damaged (a piece of one of the planes tore through it) it survived the attacks in place and was embraced by many Americans as a symbol of the nation’s strength and resiliency.
“That is why it cannot be returned.
“It sits at Battery Park, about a half-mile from Ground Zero, where it was installed March 11, 2002, the six-month anniversary of the attacks, as a “temporary” memorial. Battery Park is undergoing its own renovations, and “The Sphere” will have to moved.
“One 9/11 anniversary at Ground Zero, Mr. Arad told me that returning “The Sphere” would be “didactic.” That is, it would tell us what to think.
“Somehow disposing of it is not telling us what to think.
“This is like banishing the USS Arizona from the USS Arizona memorial.”
I am sure that many Americans will visit this memorial once, but as word gets out as to what was done here and the political correctness involved, fewer people will actually be interested in going. That is a shame. Those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, deserve better than this.