Posted on 07/10/2011 6:56:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Water pours through the north memorial pool at Ground Zero.
On Sept. 12, 2011, when the public is allowed to step onto the World Trade Center site for the first time in 10 years, the approach will be more pedestrian than poignant.
Visitors will pass through police screening gates and walk past barriers designed to prevent bombs from tearing through the site again. But this sobering reintroduction to the World Trade Center site is perhaps a fitting transition from the past decade—when the public's last direct experience of the site was a morning of terror—to a new era.
As visitors emerge from the screening, they will encounter a sweep of trees that one day will rise to form a canopy filtering light and sound. As they approach the footprints of the towers destroyed during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, rushing water will mute the sounds of the surrounding city. They will find voids where the buildings once stood, an emptiness now filled with waterfalls.
The Wall Street Journal recently toured the site with architect Michael Arad and the president and CEO of the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum, Joe Daniels.
Even though the opening is only two months away, the site remains primarily a construction zone. More than 500 neon-clad workers are racing to make the 10th-anniversary deadline; on Monday, the public can begin reserving time slots for visits.
The challenges to arriving at this moment have been legion: logistical, emotional, political. At several points, as costs swelled past $1 billion and donations withered, there were questions about whether the memorial would be built at all.
But as the 10th anniversary approached, people realized "it is not up to anybody on this project whether the world is going to check in on us," Mr. Daniels said.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
I believe its only $20 for the museum at the WTC site. Memorial is free
If you don't like it, do something about it, instead of wasting your time and my time by whining about it.
I think that reminding people of it is doing something constructive about it, as long as people seem to continue to forget. I'm sure I don't agree with cva66snipe on some specific suggestions, but it's important for us to remember that powers given today may be used by opponents tomorrow.
But then the left have a history of Islamifying 911 Memorials. The 'Crescent of Embrace' points towards Mecca.
How can it be bashing when Bush himself stated in 2000 that he and Gore were not that far apart on issues? Does that -R make it all A OK to you? Six solid years of a wasted GOP two house and White House majority. Instead of being a Reagan he was too busy being LBJ the second. Bush may have been a hero to Liberal Republicans but I am not a Liberal Republican. And Bush wasn't the only one who was left leaning. There was earlier on Newt, Lott, Dole, Frist, Thompson, etc. Since 1994 the GOP leadership has been stuck on stupid. The DEMs I know are liberal but the GOP is their enablers and Bush enabled many a RINO either into office or like Specter back in office.
This nation is in a fight for it's very survival. The policies our our leaders post-Reagan era in both parties have done us great harm. I cared for Poppy Bush less than junior though. Three previous presidents from our current one and congress set the precedents for the disaster we see today. They took the office of POTUS and it's powers far beyond the boundaries and limits specified in the Constitution. The Democratic Party has the GOP working overtime doing it's work for it. With a two house GOP majority and a GOP POTUS we should have never gotten to this point no matter who got elected POTUS in 2008.
This can not be dropped nor forgotten. To get this nation turned around it will take drastic change in the GOP leadership. It might even take the GOP being shut down and replaced as a party to do it. One thing is for darn certain. Electing Republicans just because they are Republicans is not the answer. Electing left leaning Republicans presidents or giving them the primary just because they are popular is not the answer.
I didn't like Bush from the primaries in 2000. The dislike was because of what he was saying. It sounded like Clinton policies. People were seeing Bush on TV but they never listened or even read what he actually said.
Where are we at in the middle east? One nation we fought in {Iraq} will likely be radical cleric controlled soon with our invested tax dollars and their shinny military. Iran is a serious threat as well.
Don't get me wrong I am not antiwar. I am 100% if you go to war you go to destroy and kill and leave the place smoldering ruins. You do not rebuild an enemy nation nor do you enable a threat like China. You also do not turn enemies over to other nations for trials nor play political games with prisoners. Terrorist of foreign nations should be tried under military tribunal. Do it and be done with it.
Most important is the well being and best interest of the United States should always come first. Our military needs rebuilding. As a Navy Vet I am disgusted that two carriers were not able to deploy due to readiness issues following 9/11. The issues were not command issues but FUNDING ones. The Maintenance has been underfunded sine 1990 under Bush Sr Sec of Def Cheney.
The carriers failing in 2001 should have taken some Pentagon Stars off some shoulders and relieved the Sec of Defense as well and yes I mean Rummy for not adressing the issues from day one. I didn't like Rummy either. Why? Maybe it's because I enlisted in 1976 and remember the mess. A mess that followed through the Carter term but was well under way under Rummy's first tenure as Sec of DEF. BTW the fact Bush appointed and Gates and he remained Obama's Sec of Def speaks volumes on policy.
By the way plane hijackings were going on in the 1960's yet we did not surrender our rights nor dignity just to travel on a plane. Hi-jackers several times threatened to crash planes into buildings including the nuke weapons plants in Tennessee.
I was there this last December. They have bomb barriers up all around the place. We were able to walk through buildings and elevated walkways across the street and watch the progress of the rebuilding, but we weren’t able to walk on the street.
It might well be that there won’t be a parking garage underneath the buildings. The construction hole didn’t appear to be deep enough to me, but I’m not an engineer, and don’t play one on teevee.
Shep makes a big deal about the construction of that building, and they play dramatic music and such when they talk about it.
I for one could care less about that place. There used to be buildings there, they fell. Rebuild and let’s move on.
It’s getting to the point in this nation that every time someone dies everyone wants to build a memorial to them.
People die every day, it’s what we do. Just because they died in a terrorist attack doesn’t make them anymore important than a soldier who dies in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Didn’t our govt. shell out millions to those family members? That whole episode has been a joke.
Maybe I’m coming across as callous, I do that at times. I’m just sick to death of that whole 9/11 thing. On a lighter note, NYC sucks too. They seem to think this country is so lucky to have it. NOT....
“Twenty dollars per person poorer. I understand that’s the charge to see the memorial.”
That is creepy; they probably think they’ll have every student as an involuntary customer - but I doubt it.
How many more “911 Memorials” must be designed to
embrace Islam and the murderers of Americans?
How many more, America?
Why not just elect a Moslem who admits to
representing al Qaeda and their 57 states
to be pRes_ _ent?
Is that next, America? [/s]
I will say that from the pic you posted...that looks like a rainwater runoff drain in Los Angeles or Phoenix.
So don’t think I’m on board with this just yet.
Oy! I can see the resemblance!
I still like Trump's plan: rebuild WTC 1 & 2 the same only adjacent to the original foundations with those foundations as centerpieces of the memorial.
We no longer have memorials that inspire. Wait till the museum opens at the WTC site. It will be a horrible series of insults.
"The public" are being treated like stupid sheep. We still have not rid this country of the cause of the problem.
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