Comments - 9/11 Memorial Museum in NYC is to be AVOIDED - Arapahoe Tea Party2024-03-29T15:44:15Zhttps://arapahoeteaparty.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=3186561%3ABlogPost%3A52141&xn_auth=noI posted this in Facebook and…tag:arapahoeteaparty.ning.com,2014-11-05:3186561:Comment:522202014-11-05T09:51:14.619ZTom Devinehttps://arapahoeteaparty.ning.com/profile/TomDevine
<p>I posted this in Facebook and received one negative comment "It is free on Tuesday and every thing is expensive in NYC" I may have taken the bait but felt compelled to reply.</p>
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<div class="gmail_default"><span><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/tom.devine.3363?fref=ufi" target="_blank">Tom Devine</a></span><span> to </span><span>Mary, You are in part correct “Admission is free for all visitors on Tuesday evenings from 5 p.m. to close,…</span></div>
<p>I posted this in Facebook and received one negative comment "It is free on Tuesday and every thing is expensive in NYC" I may have taken the bait but felt compelled to reply.</p>
<div class="gmail_default">My reply:</div>
<div class="gmail_default"><span><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/tom.devine.3363?fref=ufi" target="_blank">Tom Devine</a></span><span> to </span><span>Mary, You are in part correct “Admission is free for all visitors on Tuesday evenings from 5 p.m. to close, with the last admission two hours prior to closing” How cool is that? Don’t sound like Free on Tuesday.</span></div>
<p><span>I know you can get a pile of folks saying something differently but none can address this criticism.<br/>“Monuments have always been intended to embody the past and elevate the spirit, but the new $700-million National September 11 Memorial and Museum in Lower Manhattan is a downer in more ways than one.” AN ANALYSIS OF THE FAILURE OF THE 9/11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM by Catesby Leigh November 2014<br/>From the National Review states “September 11 Memorial Museum should have kept the memorial and skipped the museum. It goes on to say, “Among the items stored on the premises, though not open to tourists, are unidentifiable remains of 9/11 dead, human residue for which no other resting place has been found. This puts the 9/11 museum into a category occupied by such monuments as the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum, and it makes similar demands on the conscience: The place is both a mass-murder site and a graveyard. Is there any appropriate way to respond to it?<br/>“<strong>It is estimated to cost $60 million per year to operate”</strong> Makes you wonder what the senior managers are making?”<br/></span></p>
<div><span>The 9/11 Memorial was enough. There was no need to tack a museum onto it.</span> </div>
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