This is going to probably be short because we agreed mostly on this in the video. Expensive. How expensive? Too expensive. I can say without a doubt that all of us felt there should be a proper memorial to the people who died on 9/11 and to the people on Flight 93, but seriously what are they going to build out there with all of that money? We don’t need elaborate statues and monuments to ever person who dies for freedom. I think it would almost add to the experiance of going out there on a small rural road to to the site, having a plaque with all the people who died on Flight 93, the hole in the ground where the plane went down preserved somehow maybe, and then a perimeter around it with a small museum on the history of 9/11. We know that 9/11 was a horrid event but seriously I don’t think they even spent this much on the Pearl Harbor memorial – the biggest attack on American soil up until 9/11.
But there is one thing at the end I would like to bring up and that is the issue of the purchasing of the property. The government finally agreed to a purchasing price for the land and payed out $9.5 million two the land owners to help set up this memorial. I’m glad that this happened instead of what I heard might happen if they didn’t close in on a deal. My understanding is that in the final days before Bush left office, plans were put in motion that if the land owners didn’t accept the US Government’s offer for the land that the government would claim their land condemned and take it. Even worse was that it was advocated for by the families who had loved ones die in Flight 93. While I can’t understand what they went through on 9/11. Levying the power of the government to take other peoples land to construct a project like this is outrageous. I’m glad an reasonable agreement was reached but the fact that this could have well been something much nastier ruffles my feathers a bit. It kind of taints the story a bit.
