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Home Front: WoT
Museum at WTC to Focus More on Victims
2005-07-07
NEW YORK (AP) - In response to criticism, a ``freedom museum'' at the World Trade Center site will focus more on the victims of the 2001 terror attacks, officials said Wednesday.
"More" is not the correct response. "Almost exclusively" is the correct response.
The change was announced by the museum's chairman and vice-chairwoman in a letter to the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., which oversees the rebuilding.

Some victims' relatives have protested for weeks that the International Freedom Center museum would be anti-American and disrespectful to the dead. The museum, criticized for its intent to focus on global freedom movements, now will place the victims of Sept. 11 alongside the ``freedom heroes of history'' in its main concourse, the letter said.

The museum will be ``appropriately celebratory of our nation, and its leading role in the global fight for freedom,'' chairman Tom Bernstein and vice-chairwoman Paula Grant Berry wrote.

The museum will create a viewing room for victims' families and a gallery dedicated to the international expressions of sympathy for the attacks, Bernstein and Berry wrote. In addition, the museum will give a veto over its planned discussion series to the board of directors of the Sept. 11 memorial foundation, which includes Debra Burlingame, the most vociferous critic of the freedom museum.

Burlingame, the sister of an American Airlines pilot who died in the attacks, said in a statement with other victims' relatives Wednesday that the changes were unsatisfactory and that they still objected to the museum. ``It is dishonest and despicable to use the 9/11 artifacts and 9/11 heroes as window dressing to mislead the public,'' Burlingame said. ``So long as there is but one square inch housing dialogue, debates, artistic impressions, or exhibits about extraneous historical events, the IFC is inappropriate and a slap in the face.''

The development corporation on Wednesday called the museum's letter a ``thoughtful response.'' ``We look forward to continuing discussions with the Freedom Center in order to reach resolution on the issues that have been raised,'' the agency said in a statement.
Posted by:Steve White

#8  The museum, criticized for its intent to focus on global freedom movements, now will place the victims of Sept. 11 alongside the ``freedom heroes of history'' in its main concourse, the letter said.

Gee, thanks!
Now we should all just go away, right?
Posted by: tu3031   2005-07-07 15:04  

#7  ``It is dishonest and despicable to use the 9/11 artifacts and 9/11 heroes as window dressing to mislead the public,'' Burlingame said. ``So long as there is but one square inch housing dialogue, debates, artistic impressions, or exhibits about extraneous historical events, the IFC is inappropriate and a slap in the face.''

Ms. Burlingame is absolutely correct. The PC Totalitarians who are somehow still in charge of this are still trying to use OUR tax dollars to promote thier dangerous pacifist bullcrap. We have been reminded of that in London today. How do we let such a bunch of drug addled ninconpoops run something like this? They can go to H**L.
Posted by: BigEd   2005-07-07 11:49  

#6  Sorry 'bout the double post!
Posted by: BA   2005-07-07 10:12  

#5  lol, Shiip! Echoing .com, I thank the victim's families in standing up to this P.C. sh!t. This should be first, and foremost, about that horrific day! I'd agree to maybe place binny's head on a pike at the end, but everything else should be about that Tuesday morning!
Posted by: BA   2005-07-07 10:12  

#4  lol, Shiip! Echoing .com, I thank the victim's families in standing up to this P.C. sh!t. This should be first, and foremost, about that horrific day!
Posted by: BA   2005-07-07 10:11  

#3  I think more attention should be paid to the origins of Country &Western music at Gettysburg.
Posted by: Shiipman   2005-07-07 09:31  

#2  The IFC should be strangled in its crib.
Posted by: Pappy   2005-07-07 00:55  

#1  As with all such efforts, the project has been infected, almost taken over - before Pataki finally grabbed a clue, stood up on his hind legs, and grew a pair - by the usual assholes seeking to impose their agenda on all public works. Prolly 90% of those involved should be summarily tossed out.

My sincere thanks to the families and relatives of the dead who have not allowed this travesty to occur.
Posted by: .com   2005-07-07 00:53  

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