Well, Arizona, maybe you don’t feel much about all that burning flesh I smelled on that day. I remember it very clearly, closing all the windows and checking to see if a friend or colleague had been incinerated. Oops! Yes, they had!
Who said anything about not feeling much about it? I’m simply pointing to basic realities of the situation, it’s an event that was 13 years ago, that’s put a lot of distance between us and then, entertainment that came out that year is old, ground breaking TV shows have had their entire run in that time. Meanwhile, it’s America, we have certain things we do in America, some of which don’t really fit properly with the situation but we do it anyway. Like it or not the 9/11 Museum is a donation collecting organism, and donations collecting museums always have a high brow cocktail party for the big donors as part of the opening ceremony. And yeah that’s a little gauche in this case, but that’s the path they went down when they started collecting money from the movers and shakers of NYC, they don’t write big checks for fun, or even for belief, they do it for photo-ops that show how much they care. The only way we were ever going to avoid this was to not have a museum in the first place, of course then people would be complaining that we aren’t recognizing an important event.
A few months ago I did a 4D jigsaw puzzle of New York. On the timeline you were supposed to remove the Twin Towers in 2001.
When I finished the puzzle I threw it away (it is a once only thing) but kept the Towers; the new Freedom tower and the Statue of Liberty.
Someone had given my a statue of an angel holding a lamb. I arranged the pieces in a semi-circle with the angel behind them. Every time I pass them I say the prayer I learned at Catholic school.....
Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord;
And let perpetual light shine upon them.
May they rest in peace.
Amen.