My concern this year is not for the people like myself with a direct personal connection. Two people who died were co-workers of mine from jobs, coincidentally the same age as me. My concern is for the people of the United States whose lives were not touched. Will they remember?
I am disgusted with my local leaders lack of spine with respect to the memorial at the World Trade Center site.
Bloomberg and Pataki act as if they wish the 9/11 families would just go away and let them turn over the memorial to anti-American artists. Michelle Malkin has been blogging on this.
Rudy Giuliani said this two years ago
If we don't do this correctly—if we let some minor memorial be dwarfed by office space—people a hundred years from now will say this generation did not understand the significance of that world-altering day. Sept. 11 must not lose its resonance as time dulls the sharp edges of our collective memory. Ground zero is the site of the worst attack in the history of this country. I pray it will be the worst attack in the history of this country a hundred years from now. Done correctly, a memorial will inspire people. It should not symbolize the loss of our world before Sept. 11 or of an America that no longer exists. It should symbolize our survival and our triumph.
I hope that when I write +5 or +6 that a fitting memorial is planned and being built.
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