9/11 Memorial Treated Like Disney Land?

[rachel1]

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"Show some respect. That's the message family members of those who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center have for tourists they say are treating the National September 11th Memorial like a "Disney attraction." One week before New Yorkers will gather to mark the 11th anniversary of 9/11, the New York Post reported that visitors to the year-old memorial are treating the somber site as a playground or a picnic area. The newspaper said visitors have been seen splashing water from its two huge waterfalls to cool themselves off and have placed their children's derrieres on the bronze engraved names of the dead...".* Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola (host of TYT University and Common Room), and Rick Strom (host of TYT Sports) on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/911-memorial-treated-like_n_1855559.html

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Would those same folks behave the same way in a cemetery?

It's just vomit-inducing to read about how disrespectful some ordinary folks can be and not feel some sense of disgust and horror.

[Politicalboi]

1. It may as well be

It's all fantasy.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. What do you mean?

[richmwill]

2. Disgusting...

As a lifelong New Yorker, I would hope I never see anyone acting this way at the memorial. Would they act this way at the Holocaust Museum or Arlington Cemetery? Probably. With the parents giving a chuckle and saying "Well, you know- kids will be kids, I certainly can't control them".

[htuttle]

3. Nobody can use, abuse and cheapen the memory of the victims of 9/11...

...more than George W Bush already did.

[progressivebydesign]

4. I have mixed feelings on this, but I don't have a family member who died on 9/11.

I frankly think that it's wonderful to have life around the Memorial. What better way to remember the dead, than to LIVE? I'd rather see children playing, and people showing those that harmed America, that they did NOT destroy us.

Perhaps the design of the area where the names are, could have been done vertically, so that people couldn't sit on them... but I would much rather see a vibrant and living memorial, than a cold place where people walk up, look, and leave. Have you seen children in graveyards? They pick flowers, they lie on the grass.. they're very in touch with life.

[jberryhill]

6. "What better way to remember the dead, than to LIVE?"

Exactly.

[jberryhill]

5. Maybe it's just me....

But if I died in a horrific national tragedy, I'd be glad to know that years later, children would find a place to be happy there.

[WCGreen]

7. Yep!

[Lars77]

8. I have visited Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps

There you are pretty much told that you are not at a tourist attraction and that you need to behave in an appropriate manner. Posing for holiday photos in front of the gas chamber is not ok.

People still do sometimes, so i'm not surprised that people treat this as just another New York experience on their holiday trip.

[KansDem]

12. I visited The Alamo many years ago...

This sign was posted at the entrance:

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Come on. It's in the middle of Manhattan.

You cant expect to have something out in the middle of all that humanity without human beings acting like humans.

[VWolf]

11. Southern tip of Manhattan, actually

Sorry, I'm assholy like that.

Agreed that it's to be expected. I'd have a problem with graffiti/vandalism (who wouldn't), but I'm willing to give a pass on this.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Nah

in terms of DU assholery, that's minor leagues. I stand corrected.