by Lionel Bascom — December 25th, 2006 — 1 comment
Nothing related to rebuilding the World Trade Center – including construction of the of the Freedom Tower – has been easy in the past and there is no reason to expect it ever be easy now or at any time in the future. “Any perception that cops and firefighters aren’t being more thoroughly memorialized is taken as a slight by their families’ is another truism related to the WTC reconstruction too, according to a column called Ground Zero Watch in New York Magazine.
“That’s why 2006 is winding down with people still arguing over a nonexistent memorial” at Ground Zero, the magazine says. ‘In the latest bit of incremental progress, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation thought up a new arrangement of victims’ names on the memorial. Firefighters and cops will now not be ranked but grouped by command, precinct, or company. Civilian workers killed in the attacks will be listed by employer, but the employer will not be named. Spouses and siblings will be put together. The plan, also, somehow, accommodates the names of the Pentagon and the United 93 victims as well as the six people who died in the 1993 bombings.”
We’ll stop here because it is too pedestrian to go any further with this list of lists here. “Mayor Bloomberg, who is clearly beginning to lose his patience, responded to this new arrangement by saying “There is no right answer. Nevertheless, it is time to move forward.” Yes, hell yes. The dead are beyond caring and the living just don’t seem to know any better.
11:56 PM in Uncategorized, The Construction, World Trade Center, Related Stories, Freedom Tower News
If you are saying that the living are fools, then you are probably correct in your analysis.
However, there will be future generations of people viewing this memorial, who will not have lived through the horror of 9/11. Therefore, an organized, respectful manner by which the names of all the victims are displayed is absolutely necessary.
During this extensive planning stage, there is a concentrated effort to be sure the details are clear and accurate. All this, too, will be a note in the history books. I wonder what those living in the future will think. Maybe, “They just [didn’t] seem to know any better.”
Jeanne · December 26th, 2006 at 8:17 am