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By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jun 21, 8:02 AM ET
NEW YORK - Family members of those killed at the World Trade Center are balking at plans to add a museum of freedom at ground zero, arguing it would allow politics to infect a place revered as sacred.
Relatives representing 14 family groups rallied at the site Monday to condemn plans for the International Freedom Center, which officials said would place the 2001 terror attacks in a historical context.
The center would be part of a cultural complex set to open in 2009 at the northeast end of the rebuilt trade center site. It would host discussions on historical and current events, exhibits on global freedom movements and a service program encouraging activities that could range from joining the Peace Corps to enlisting in the U.S. military.
According to the International Freedom Center's Web site, the museum will "deal with the international impact of September 11," as well as such issues as segregation in America and the Holocaust.
"It doesn't belong at a memorial," said Charles Wolf, whose wife, Katherine, died in the World Trade Center collapse. "You wouldn't put a debate about Nazism and authoritarianism at Dachau."
Center President Richard J. Tofel said that while the causes of the Sept. 11 attacks would not be up for debate, the center would not bar criticism of the United States and its actions.
"Part of the way we celebrate freedom is to acknowledge that even the greatest societies in the world and those that have made the greatest contribution to freedom are not perfect," he said.
The center's use of advisers that include some critics of U.S. policy has prompted criticism from conservative commentators in recent weeks.
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By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jun 21, 8:02 AM ET
NEW YORK - Family members of those killed at the World Trade Center are balking at plans to add a museum of freedom at ground zero, arguing it would allow politics to infect a place revered as sacred.
Relatives representing 14 family groups rallied at the site Monday to condemn plans for the International Freedom Center, which officials said would place the 2001 terror attacks in a historical context.
The center would be part of a cultural complex set to open in 2009 at the northeast end of the rebuilt trade center site. It would host discussions on historical and current events, exhibits on global freedom movements and a service program encouraging activities that could range from joining the Peace Corps to enlisting in the U.S. military.
According to the International Freedom Center's Web site, the museum will "deal with the international impact of September 11," as well as such issues as segregation in America and the Holocaust.
"It doesn't belong at a memorial," said Charles Wolf, whose wife, Katherine, died in the World Trade Center collapse. "You wouldn't put a debate about Nazism and authoritarianism at Dachau."
Center President Richard J. Tofel said that while the causes of the Sept. 11 attacks would not be up for debate, the center would not bar criticism of the United States and its actions.
"Part of the way we celebrate freedom is to acknowledge that even the greatest societies in the world and those that have made the greatest contribution to freedom are not perfect," he said.
The center's use of advisers that include some critics of U.S. policy has prompted criticism from conservative commentators in recent weeks.
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To bring politics into the memorial on that site is despicable. Tell what happened that day, honor the victims in the buildings and the heroic rescue workers who died trying to save them, and leave the moral relativism out.
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"You wouldn't put a debate about Nazism and authoritarianism at Dachau."
No, they wouldn't debate the merits of Nazism at Dachau, but they did put a museum there. I don't think anyone is planning on discussing the merits of terrorism.
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Last edited by Pariah; June 21st, 2005 at 04:13 PM.
More than half the world (or this P&R Board, for that matter), complains that the reason 9/11 happened was because we didn't understand the world. So, devoting discussion to that at the site of the WTC seems rather appropriate, to me.
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No, they wouldn't debate the merits of Nazism at Dachau, but they did put a museum there.
That is a bad analogy--but would a plaque at the U.S.S. Arizona memorial mentioning how we interned Japanese-Americans during WW II and torched 150,000 innocent Japanese civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki be appropriate?
That is a bad analogy--but would a plaque at the U.S.S. Arizona memorial mentioning how we interned Japanese-Americans during WW II and torched 150,000 innocent Japanese civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki be appropriate?
That might be a little much for a plaque, but since it's history--un-sepratable history--yes, I think it would be appropriate to bring to light there.
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That might be a little much for a plaque, but since it's history--un-sepratable history--yes, I think it would be appropriate to bring to light there.
I actually think there is a walled history of the War at the Pearl Harbor site - I was there at the beginning of last year and remember seeing something like that, but I don't if the internment camps/Nagasaki was shows on the walls.
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