[Osx-nutters] another special comment

[Jeff]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:33 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

>   Five years later this space… is still empty.
>       Five years later there is no Memorial to the dead.
>       Five years later there is no building rising to show with  
> proud defiance that we would not have our America wrung from us, by  
> cowards and criminals.
>       Five years later this country’s wound is still open.
>       Five years… later this country’s mass grave is still unmarked.
>
>
>       Five years later… this is still… just a background for a  
> photo-op.
>       It is beyond shameful.


Thanks for the link, Kevin.
I wonder, though...
Five years later the space is empty because it took years to sift  
through the rubble to find bones and other remains, right?
Five years later there's no memorial, but since when has our country  
ever been able to select a design for and then build a major monument  
in five years?   And wouldn't we want to be sure that this memorial  
in particular was done just right?  I know an architect who said that  
it would take a year to design a building or memorial.
And five years later there's no building rising, but a little later  
he says "this country's mass grave is still unmarked."  Isn't that  
really the big issue that's delaying everything?  What do we build on  
a site that's a mass grave?  A monument?  A building?  What?  Do we  
want to build on this mass grave site?

And last:  to reduce the site of the WTC, with all of the deaths that  
occurred there, to a "background for a photo op" is simply  
despicable.  I've never heard anyone speak so crassly, crudely and  
shamefully for the sake of .. what?  Political points?  Slings and  
arrows at the current admin?  Often we hear the term "dirty mind"  
thrown about jokingly when someone construes something innocent to be  
something risque or even perverse.  I think that Keith Olbermann's  
special comment is evidence of his own state of mind.  To me he seems  
to be a man who is trying to defend his own point of view by using  
hyperbole and misdirection. with the WTC site as a shield.
My .02

Jeff
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