Marye
03-21-2002, 08:52 PM
Quoted from Firehouse.com:
A Waterloo, Iowa, man has proposed one answer. He wants his community to put up a monument of steel beams and other debris from the World Trade Center. An ugly monument.
"We don't want this memorial to be pretty," Dennis Downs said. "What happened in New York was ugly and nasty and terrible and tragic and criminal."
This memorial should not soothe the feelings of righteous anger and resentment the attack raised, he seems to be saying. It should remind people of the justice of the war against terrorism and encourage them to support the sacrifices and challenges that are surely ahead for the United States as the battle against al-Qaida and other, would-be terrorist groups and countries continues.
There will be other memorials that eulogize the dead and uplift the spirit. Downs is right - Americans need something to remind them of the wrong done to them and theirs. They need to see the rawness of the bricks and mortar, the jagged edges of steel, the unidentifiable bits and pieces of buildings that once held thousands of souls.
Any thoughts? MaryE
A Waterloo, Iowa, man has proposed one answer. He wants his community to put up a monument of steel beams and other debris from the World Trade Center. An ugly monument.
"We don't want this memorial to be pretty," Dennis Downs said. "What happened in New York was ugly and nasty and terrible and tragic and criminal."
This memorial should not soothe the feelings of righteous anger and resentment the attack raised, he seems to be saying. It should remind people of the justice of the war against terrorism and encourage them to support the sacrifices and challenges that are surely ahead for the United States as the battle against al-Qaida and other, would-be terrorist groups and countries continues.
There will be other memorials that eulogize the dead and uplift the spirit. Downs is right - Americans need something to remind them of the wrong done to them and theirs. They need to see the rawness of the bricks and mortar, the jagged edges of steel, the unidentifiable bits and pieces of buildings that once held thousands of souls.
Any thoughts? MaryE