Re: The Towers came down -- It's Debateable

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, [3] ]

Subject: Re: The Towers came down

Author:
Jen

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 18:41:01 07/05/02 Fri
In reply to: M23 's message, "The Towers came down" on 23:51:42 07/02/02 Tue

Maybe we should take a look at some other cities that have suffered the same kind of devastation--London, perhaps.

There must be room for a memorial AND a rebuilt office complex. I agree, don't rebuild the Towers as they were (they'd never get an insurance carrier to touch them, if nothing else, and I'm not sure that design would be the best by current architectural/engineering standards); but an office complex of several shorter buildings, perhaps with evocative architecture. But making the site a memorial forever lets the terrorists "win" by taking up a large tract of the most valuable land in the world.

And now, the cynic talking. Hell, it's not like people won't forget about it in 50 years, with or without a memorial. Look at the number of people who didn't know what Pearl Harbor was until someone made a cheesy movie out of it!

Which makes me think....maybe we should all do "Sept 11" essays about what we did and thought on 9-11 and the days that followed, and archive them somewhere for our kids to read someday. In 20 years, our kids will be writing term papers on it and saying "what was it really like back then?" At least, I hope it will be that distant a conflict by then....

Jen

>Do you agree that the site should never be built on
>again? Just a memorial?

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]