Blog by Snowbird

9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero

This is a very touchy subject because everyone has strong feelings about what should be done to memorialize that horrific day in September, 2001. There's no doubt that it has to be remembered, and that a very effective way to do that would be to create a place where families of the victims, as well as everyone else, could go to reflect on the event and to remember what this country is facing every day the terrorists are still free. But this is where the controversy and unfortunately, the politicizing, comes in. Do we want a Freedom Center where the tragedies of the world can be displayed and explained? Or should it be soley about 9/11? Personally, I don't think the Freedom Center should be built. It was birthed from a group of politicians and political affiliates trying to do what's "pc" to appease the Left. They want to show all of the instances in US history where the government failed it's people. I'm not even sure that's the way to describe what they want to do. I'm not sure who they want to blame for slavery or segregation, for the Holocaust or genocide, or any other atrocity that has occured since the US was born in 1776. Unfortunately for the lefties, they can't pin that on the Bush administration or President Bush himself. However, they can try to blame America, but their blame is general because they don't know what or who to actually target. They just need to put their hatred of this country somewhere and that place has become the Freedom Center. They want to showcase all of the mistakes this young country has made. Why is that? I can't even begin to understand where that misguided, uninformed, illogical anger comes from. But the families of the victims of 9/11 wouldn't, and shouldn't, stand for this disgrace of a memorial, and neither should the people. 9/11 deserves it's own memorial, solely dedicated to the victims. It should not include any other tragedies. Don't get me wrong, every act of violence of that proportion should have it's own memorial, just not at Ground Zero.
I lost a very close family friend when the twin towers were hit. I don't want to go to Ground Zero and see a Center where it's explained that the US is to blame, that we could have done things differently and it never would have happened. That's BS. The blame lies with the terrorists, and no one else.

posted by Snowbird @ 4:22 PM