From fork-admin@xent.com Wed Sep 11 19:42:19 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140D616F16 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:42:19 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:42:19 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8BHgaC24933 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:42:38 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 878C32940B7; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from crank.slack.net (slack.net [166.84.151.181]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F7F29409A for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by crank.slack.net (Postfix, from userid 596) id 9284F3ED63; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:44:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crank.slack.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90C9A3ED55 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:44:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Tom To: fork@example.com Subject: Keillor voices up on what to do with the WTC site Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:44:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL,DEAR_SOMEBODY,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02, USER_AGENT_PINE version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: http://www.phc.mpr.org/posthost/index.shtml Dear Garrison, There are at least six plans about what to do with "Ground Zero" in New York. I believe a suitable memorial surrounded by a lovely park with benches, walkways, children's playgrounds, possibly some concessions such as a restaurant, small theater and a place for art works would be the best tribute to those who lost their lives. What do you think should done with the space? Joe Adams Hillsdale, New Jersey I dread the thought of a big memorial in Manhattan that's designed by committee and that's gone through public hearings and so forth ----- it's going to be cold and ugly and pretentious and the upshot will be one more public space that the public hates, of which there are plenty already. New York is a bustling commercial city and that's the beauty of it, it's a city of young ambitious dreamy people, like the folks who died in the towers, and it's not a memorializing city. Historic events occurred in New York that in any other city would be commemorated with interpretive centers and guides and historical museums and in New York there's barely a little plaque. That's a great thing, in my estimation. It's a hustling city, full of immigrants looking for their big chance, and compared to that spirit of entrepreneurship, a memorial plaza with a fountain and a statue of something seems dead to me. Look at Grant's Tomb. Who walks past it and thinks about President Grant? Nobody. People sit in the plaza by Grant's Tomb and think about lunch, about sex, about money, about all the things that New York is about. If you want to find Grant, read his memoirs. His monument seems odd in New York: it belongs in Washington, which is our memorial city. New York is for the young and lively.