The 9/11 museum's absurd gift shop

Ny Post ^ | May 18, 2014 | By Susan Edelman

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Inside the 9/11 museum’s offensive gift shop

By Susan Edelman

The museum at Ground Zero tells the dark story of the 9/11 terror attacks with spectacular artifacts and exhibits. It pays heart-wrenching tribute to the innocents and heroes killed that day. It also has a gift shop. The 9/11 museum’s cavernous boutique offers a vast array of souvenir goods. For example: FDNY, NYPD and Port Authority Police T-shirts ($22) and caps ($19.95); earrings molded from leaves and blossoms of downtown trees ($20 to $68); cop and firefighter charms by Pandora and other jewelers ($65); “United We Stand” blankets.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Ah yes, liberals and their sensitivity. Do they sell Mohammed Atta action figures as well? How about collapse able WTC towers?

[njslim]

I Have many memorial T Shirts with names of FF who died
on 9/11....

[mojito]

How about a bobblehead Osama?

An commemorative replica box-cutter?

[Mears]

Aaaah,capitalism.

I remember seeing a miniature gallows at the Salem,MA witch museum .

If no one buys that stuff,they’ll eliminate it.

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[Chode]

[Sacajaweau]

My beef is that there’s an entrance fee. Sooooo wrong.

[mojito]

My parents went to New York, and all I got was this grinning Muslim lunatic for a president.

[skinkinthegrass]

what! ..no Qu'ran (on every shelf), how insensitive!

[skinkinthegrass]

did I forget the [/s] tag?

[napscoordinator]

I am with you, but they charge for the Arizona Memorial too and they sell tacky items in their gift shops as well. It is all Capitalism which I support.

[BenLurkin]

[skinkinthegrass]

"and all I got was this grinning Muslim
(jack@$) lunatic for a president"just send it "Bathhouse" back; prepaid (by the Jihadists) to Kenya/Indonesia.

[BenLurkin]

These would be hot sellers:

[Popman]

I'm not that worked up over this gift shop, I certainly understand the victims families having an issue...

I do think it could have been toned down a bit and a more sensitive approach to the merchandise...

After all, people want to have a memento when they visit such a place...

[Fresh Wind]

How about designer Blue Dresses by Bill Clinton? After all, Bill was getting b******s under the desk instead of worrying about Islamic terrorism.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yeah $24 bucks. It would be interesting to know just where exactly all that money is going. To support the museum or so Democrats can use it to bribe voters again?

[Chode]

me tooo...

[goodwithagun]

After reading the article I understand the distaste that some people have over this. The gift shop is over the area where 8000 unidentified bodies rest. The mother of one of those unidentified bodies makes a point to say that the gift shop is just another way to bloat the already expensive staffing. She doesn’t appreciate this happening over a tomb of the unknown.

[Chode]

100%... 0bozo the Clown

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

LOL! Holy smoke, I use to have one of those in the 1960s. You punch him in the nose and it squeaks. Today it would be banned for inciting violence in children.