[Osx-nutters] another special comment

[Shawn Erickson]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 5:51 AM, Jeff wrote:

>
> 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.

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Seriously we have nothing built because of many of the reasons you  
listed as well as idiotic legal wrangling by local and outside groups  
over countless issues... all of which has held progress up with both  
a memorial and reconstruction.

-Shawn
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