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I am all for the memorial for everyone who died. Not really sure what purpose the museum will serve. This was a terrorist attack which i don't want to re-live.
The purpose of the museum is not just to tell the story of the terrorist attacks, but about the aftermath. The enormous effort it took to remove and sort the debris, identify the remains, the volunteers who took care of all these people, and more.
It is a fascinating story of more than 40,000 people whose lives were suspended for nine months or more while they worked on this effort, and it brought out some of the best there is in humanity.
If it does not interest you, that's your preference, but trust me, many other people are very interested in the history of those days. The WTC Tribute Museum in lower Manhattan, a smaller effort started by a dead firefighter's father in response to the interest in what happened in NYC in 2001 and 2002, is run by family members and survivors, and gets more traffic than it can handle. Ditto with St. Paul's Church, where the workers were fed and housed and which is now a permanent display.
50 million dollars a year, close to a million dollars a week to operate this museum, I wonder how many unions and their workers are on the take <whoops> I mean payroll...
A 9/11 museum, just like the museum in Auschwitz Germany is needed to remind people what occurred, but the cost sounds like another scam, only this scam is NYC sized.
If all the money for this museum was ONLY coming from the pockets of New Yorkers I couldn't care less how much it cost but once again there's NY Democrats holding out their hands to the federal government to fund something they can't afford.
The purpose of the museum is not just to tell the story of the terrorist attacks, but about the aftermath. The enormous effort it took to remove and sort the debris, identify the remains, the volunteers who took care of all these people, and more.
It is a fascinating story of more than 40,000 people whose lives were suspended for nine months or more while they worked on this effort, and it brought out some of the best there is in humanity.
If it does not interest you, that's your preference, but trust me, many other people are very interested in the history of those days. The WTC Tribute Museum in lower Manhattan, a smaller effort started by a dead firefighter's father in response to the interest in what happened in NYC in 2001 and 2002, is run by family members and survivors, and gets more traffic than it can handle. Ditto with St. Paul's Church, where the workers were fed and housed and which is now a permanent display.
I find it disturbing that people want to relive a terrorist event. The memorial, IMO, is sufficient. I remember a year after 9/11, tourists would go to the site and look at the big hole in the ground.
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50 million dollars a year, close to a million dollars a week to operate this museum, I wonder how many unions and their workers are on the take <whoops> I mean payroll...
A 9/11 museum, just like the museum in Auschwitz Germany is needed to remind people what occurred, but the cost sounds like another scam, only this scam is NYC sized.
If all the money for this museum was ONLY coming from the pockets of New Yorkers I couldn't care less how much it cost but once again there's NY Democrats holding out their hands to the federal government to fund something they can't afford.
This museum should be run and paid by Larry Silverstein.
They got the Memorial built with a lot of private donations (and some public money), so let's see if they can get private corporations to continue to support it as well.
Most visitors to the Museum will be out-of-town tourists, whose dollars will be spent all over New York City during their visits. $20 million is pocket change to the hotel and tourism industry in New York.
It's a freaking bomb site not Mecca!!!!! Get over it already.
I find it disturbing that people want to relive a terrorist event. The memorial, IMO, is sufficient. I remember a year after 9/11, tourists would go to the site and look at the big hole in the ground.
Some people are just drawn to history's tragedies. Since I was a kid, I was fascinated with the stories of Pompeii, and the Titanic, and the Triangle Fire and similar terrible events. Other people love to visit battlefield museums or places like the Confederate prison at Andersonville.
Although, they do already have a lot of the artifacts, oral histories, etc., re 9/11 at the NYC Historical Museum, Museum of the City of New York, the State Museum at Albany, etc. I guess one could argue that it belongs in one of those already-existing places, but maybe "being there" is part of the appeal of an on-site museum.
Some people are just drawn to history's tragedies. Since I was a kid, I was fascinated with the stories of Pompeii, and the Titanic, and the Triangle Fire and similar terrible events. Other people love to visit battlefield museums or places like the Confederate prison at Andersonville.
Although, they do already have a lot of the artifacts, oral histories, etc., re 9/11 at the NYC Historical Museum, Museum of the City of New York, the State Museum at Albany, etc. I guess one could argue that it belongs in one of those already-existing places, but maybe "being there" is part of the appeal of an on-site museum.
I guess so. Larry Silverstein should pay, run and manage that museum. I don't believe our tax dollars should go to it.
This museum should be run and paid by Larry Silverstein.
Umm...what experience or qualification does Silverstein have for running historical museums?
Just out of curiosity, I checked the website's donor list, and he is listed as having given at the $5 million level, as a family donation, not as Silverstein Properties, Inc. I see no mention of SPI as a donor.
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