mass wrote:
[[ I see your point, but this is not a tomb...]]
But it -IS- a "tomb". With ashes scattered all around.
Not long after the World Trade Center attacks, I was possibly the first to post the suggestion that nothing be built on the site, that it become a memorial and perhaps a burial ground (a la Arlington) for those killed in the war with islam.
Unfortunately, it is a "war" that we are NOT "winning", in any sense of the word, even after being involved in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A "museum" is ok, I guess.
Do they drink wine and celebrate at the Holocaust museum down in DC ??
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Andy wrote above:
[[ Many of those responsible for evil acts like those that resulted in the need for a WTC memorial are still at large.
And they are watching us. ]]
Yes. From the White House....
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Andy also wrote:
[[ There's a difference between a cemetary and a killing field. I have in fact drunk toasts to the departed at their gravesites, and laughed with friends and families at wakes. I would not be comfortable doing so at Dachau or Auschwitz. ]]
I've been to Dachau, walked through the gas chambers and stuck my head into the ovens.
What happened at "ground zero" was an act of war. A war against Western Civilization, and a demonstration of islam's intent for us. It was no ordinary place of ordinary death.
I was at ground zero soon after the attack, when you could walk on the nearby streets and leave your footprints in the dust -- dust that may have been that of the victims as well as that of the collapsed structures.
That space is hallowed ground, as much so as the cemetery at Arlington. I chafed that they built anything there, but New Yorkers are essentially stupid.
But having said that, The West these days doesn't seem all that much brighter.
The attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon was a Clarion Call -- a sounding of the cry of battle. We didn't start the fight, but if we wish to survive as a culture, we have no choice to finish it.
And this is one fight where the end -WILL JUSTIFY- the means.
The only option is to fight for survival, whatever it takes.
If we cannot find the intestinal fortitude for that, we will lose.
I have yet to see much evidence that we are fighting to win...