Not sure how long this will stay in GAL but this is not totally political in nature so much as it is human and American.
Am I the only person who is fucking annoyed by the choice to replace the holes where the twin towers were with…holes? And a single, atrociously ugly building in replacement of the Trade Center? I don’t typically use such language here, but fuck this. Seriously? This is how we memorialize three thousand of our murdered countrymen? By two gigantic gaping reminders of just what happened as those buildings collapsed upon themselves in a hellish inferno of melted steel and rubble and vaporized blood and powdered bone and teeth and terror and death?
Fuck. That.
They should have built those Twin Towers up just as they were before, only one floor higher, as a big FUCK YOU to the murderous animals who thought they could put a dent in our spirit.
How hard would that have been? All this debate and discussion, for years on end, and this is what they finally came up with? This?
Each pool is 1-acre and together they are intended to symbolize the loss of life and the physical void left by the terrorist attacks. The sound of the water falling is supposed to drown out the sounds of the city, making the site a contemplative sanctuary (courtesy of wiki).
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
Purely out of curiosity, have you visited the memorial?[/quote]
No, I haven’t. The first I actually had heard of it was today, when a friend of mine on facebook had gone and posted a bunch of pics. I had actually put the whole thing out of my mind as I’m in Japan and it was taking so long for anyone to finally decide on what to do with the thing. For all I know, it’s been up forever now.
I’m certain I’m going to get some disagreement here, too, and I’m even open to hearing the motivation behind this choice. This was a pure, emotional reaction of a post upon seeing it for the first time. My first reaction: I hate it.
[quote]xXSeraphimXx wrote:
I really like how they look.
Each pool is 1-acre and together they are intended to symbolize the loss of life and the physical void left by the terrorist attacks. The sound of the water falling is supposed to drown out the sounds of the city, making the site a contemplative sanctuary (courtesy of wiki).[/quote]
Yeah, I kind of understand the motivation behind it. I just think, as Chushin states rather more eloquently than I do, that it puts the focus on the victimization, when we should be giving the finger. Two, 111 floor, concrete, steel and glass fingers, to be exact.