Comments on: The sound of the 9/11 memorial https://thenewneo.com/2011/09/27/the-sound-of-the-911-memorial/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:16:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Wm Lawrence https://thenewneo.com/2011/09/27/the-sound-of-the-911-memorial/#comment-271423 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:16:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=9987#comment-271423 I wonder if the falling water will be loud enough to drown out the call to prayer from the new mosque.

]]> By: Promethea https://thenewneo.com/2011/09/27/the-sound-of-the-911-memorial/#comment-271366 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:14:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=9987#comment-271366 Artfldr . . .

Thank you for your holiday wishes!

And in that spirit I’ll tell you the story of most of our Jewish holidays….

“They tried to kill us. They failed. When do we eat?”

😉

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2011/09/27/the-sound-of-the-911-memorial/#comment-271339 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:21:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=9987#comment-271339 i nearly forgot…
and dont know where to put the post…

hopefully here is ok..

L’Shana Tovah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Promethea https://thenewneo.com/2011/09/27/the-sound-of-the-911-memorial/#comment-271325 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:07:47 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=9987#comment-271325 Colin . . .

We can’t remain in a permanent state of rage, that’s not a good memorial.

But a good memorial would honor American values and heroism.

As I said in my comment above, I’ll probably like this one anyway. I’m just disturbed by the direction our formerly optimistic culture has taken.

I hope there are a few American flags at this memorial site. Maybe that terrific photo of three firemen raising the flag against the destroyed background.

]]> By: Colin https://thenewneo.com/2011/09/27/the-sound-of-the-911-memorial/#comment-271302 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:04:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=9987#comment-271302 I can’t say I’d want an ‘angry’ memorial, no matter the justification. In honoring the dead and their memory, I think it works, and seems a fitting tribute on that level. It could have been much, much worse.

I used to feel an echo every time the anniversary swung around. 10 years on, I can’t say I honestly feel the rage and bewilderment of that day anymore. Just a resigned sadness and a resolve that such a thing be deterred as strongly as possible.

Anger and righteous rage have their place, but I don’t think they need to be nurtured and tended like some flame that should never die.

]]> By: Promethea https://thenewneo.com/2011/09/27/the-sound-of-the-911-memorial/#comment-271287 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:27:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=9987#comment-271287 I’ll probably like the memorial in same way that I like Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial. Very moving.

However, I strongly agree with Don Carlos that September 11 memorials have stomped on the anger that we should feel toward this ATROCITY. Sadness should not be the main emotion.

Enough already with the victimology–which now pervades our culture like an allergy or an everlasting case of acne. Where’s our American spirit?

I’m especially outraged by the Flight 93 memorial. That should have showed the defiance of free people united against their Islamist murderers. The Flight 93 heroes saved our government. The so-called memorial is designed to make us sad instead of proud. It will be a blot on our landscape, and I hope it gets vandalized so that the “crescent” is destroyed.

I guess there’s a reason why I’ve been reading Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, and F. Paul Wilson “repairman jack” novels. I want to see heroism honored and the bad guys taken out.

]]> By: Don Carlos https://thenewneo.com/2011/09/27/the-sound-of-the-911-memorial/#comment-271278 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:44:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=9987#comment-271278 “I came away with the same feeling that overtakes one after a funeral or memorial service for a relative or close friend”, the NYRB writer observes.

She does not say what that “same feeling” is. I expect she means sadness. But these people didn’t die of cancer or in an accident. They were murdered by jihadists. Where is the writer’s anger?

Sadness is a passive, inward emotion. Anger is activating.

We need some anger at this Memorial, but that is denied us by design.

]]> By: Jewel https://thenewneo.com/2011/09/27/the-sound-of-the-911-memorial/#comment-271267 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:50:15 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=9987#comment-271267 Wow.

]]> By: SteveH https://thenewneo.com/2011/09/27/the-sound-of-the-911-memorial/#comment-271134 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:50:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=9987#comment-271134 Something this big and important always ran the risk of becoming a hodgepodge by commitee. Looks like somebody had the sense to let one very good architect do his thing.

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