From the New York Observer:
Re-Remembering 9/11: The New Ground Zero Museum
Visitors standing in a 120,000-square-foot cavern below where the north tower once stood will be confronted with not just the names but the faces of the 2,982 fallen. Artifacts will tell the story, from a huge FDNY fire truck, one-half of it pristine, one-half charred and crushed by the bridge collapse, to a pair of bloody high heels donated by a survivor who lacerated her feet as she fled the imploding towers. The museum will show the hijackers-and they will show pictures of people leaping from the towers, not to horrify visitors but to make sure the story is as complete as possible. Visitors will have to descend the actual granite "Survivor's Staircase" to end the tour.
If this seems blunt, organizers said, it is for the sake of posterity. "What we've tried to do is to keep our fingerprints off the story as much as possible," said Steven Davis, the museum's architect. "We're trying to tell the truth." For Mr. Daniels, president of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum Foundation since 2006, this is a chance to make a well-worn story fresh. People "are going to come in tremendous numbers when we open, and the question is what do we do with that opportunity, vis-à-vis 9/11?"
Not this, say some historians and critics, who already are concerned. David Simpson, author of 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration, said there's a potential "the museum will not educate, it will simply shock," and generate so much emotion it will be a shrine, not museum. "Without in any sense diminishing the horror of 9/11, it isn't the single event of this history. It just isn't.... The more you focus on the immediacy of that day, those 102 minutes or whatever that was, the more risk there is of losing sight of everything else." Alice Greenwald, director of the museum, described its planned content in an article for Curator Journal in January as "both graphic in its violence and provocative in its implications." Too harsh? Too bathetic? Too sentimental? Will it celebritize the dead? Let the debate begin.
Since when is the anihilation of 3000 industrious innocents an issue of debate? Feck the critics. 9/11 is what it is. Enough of the bleeding heart intellectualizing white wash. DO NOT PERMIT THESE COWARDS TO ERASE OR WHITEWASH THIS HISTORIC EVENT ANY FURTHER! They've been successful in burying the exhibit below grade. ENOUGH! Anyone who dares to limit exposure to this history should have a fist meet their brain.
ReplyDeleteHi guys.
ReplyDelete"There's nothing more shocking the the naked truth".and that's exactly what's need in cases like these!Already now as we speak they are trying to erase the holocausts Jewish and Armenian.The same will happen with 9/11 in 50 years the Mosque on ground zero will claim it never happened.Mark my words!
Will,
ReplyDeleteI agree will, and as long as they will show actually history and won't put some political or ideological spin on it, the Museum will be educational and a memorial at the same time. Much like the Holocaust Museum.
"102 minutes or whatever it was..." It was 102 minutes of slaughter and horror committed in the name of Islam, you corrupt, amoral slimeball. This is not the Arizona, it is not a post-war memorial. This war is still going on and that makes this "museum" unique. We are not dealing with a defeated enemy, but one who is actually trying to construct a victory tower at the site of the attack. As any country at war, we need to be reminded why we fight.
ReplyDeleteWonder when these worms will get around to criticizing the Holocaust Museum because it might make leftover Nazis feel put upon. I suppose they think anti-Semitism is a thing of the past, too.
Revere Rides Again,
ReplyDeleteOne really Ironic fact is that many radical leftists do condemn the Nazis in one instance, yet they actively compare Jews and the state of Israel to Nazis, all while calling for them to do things that would actually lead to another Holocaust if they were ever carried through. In addition, a few have even called for the death of Jews while comparing them to Nazis. Sick isn't it?
as is everything... anything will be something different to different people.. that is a human condition. it is to be revered, to be considered sacred.. without that we would all be like the Muslims, do', say'n what we ate told. no mystery, no growth,
ReplyDeleteno 'Ah ha' when we evolve a little.
then ..someone drags a bucket of bullshit and a broad brush to twist a sweet moment to shit on someone he doesn't like with a witless comment from the tea party radical fringes..
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"Snip...One really Ironic fact is that many radical leftists do condemn the Nazis in one instance, yet they actively compare Jews and the state of Israel to Nazis..snip"
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hate anyone you like, get your facts straight first.. there are some who do what you accused.. but they are Muslims mostly. and Band wagon nut cases.. but history doesn't agree with your view of the Humanistic political party's achievements in the united states. since the "Anti-Trust laws..darm that was the left.. workers hours from 12/6 to 8/5, safe working environments, no child labor, SSI for grand pa/ma, Medicare so you dint go homeless too when they get sick.. we could do 2000-2008 again.. needless 3 trillion dollar illegal wars, world economy destroyed the Free Trade and Deregulation of the richest people in the history of the world.. just to make them richer.. the Bottom 80% Americans hold only 7% of the wealth, the Bush tax cuts did nothing to help them in any meaningful way, we got $130 we had to pay 30% tax on.. while Bill gates ended up paying the taxes of a family making $80,000. yea Baby... the Bu$h tax cuts represent 1/2 the Deficit you complain about and only enriches the richest 2.5% you'd have to make like $10 million a year.. the death tax only effects the richist 2.5%, to even pay the death tax you have to get 'over' $10,000,000 inheritance.
and we have to pay 40% on everything we win in the Lottery.
you are being mind controlled ..get real
Black_Rain,
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying that all leftists are bad, or even that all Leftists are anti-semites. I'm saying some leftists, and yes there are right wing anti-semites. I really don't want to argue with you over economics.
By the way, I'm hardly part of some radical right wing fringe group. I'm a supporter of things like the separation of church and state, and I'm concerned about global warming, among some other things. I'm also anti bigotry and racism.