(August 1, 2011 at 2:21 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I'm not criticizing cemeteries as memorials (would it amuse you if the earliest known types of ritual display of remains, the type of display that would become the cemetery, are thought to be much more like property markers?). In this case, just in this case, It would seem to me that we might want to throw a nice big building up as a giant "f u".
I don't have an issue with the Ground Zero memorial going up. I think it's construction indicates a giant FU from the inception of the plans that set the project into motion.
What would allow the terrorists to "win", is if that spot that had comprised 16 acres at 130 Liberty Street in Manhattan, was instead allowed to be filled in so that nothing remained but horrific memories and new sod. As if thousands of people sent screaming to their deaths that tragic September day, don't matter anymore.
That, is what the terrorists want. As zealots of any kind prove time and again. Lives are expendable when the agenda means everything.
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