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I'm a New Yorker, and I've seen the site up close. When I saw it, I was horrified. Television and photographs cannot accurately reflect the enormity of the site. It is a murder scene and the aftermath of a war zone and not a source of entertainment. I think that there are so many people in New York, the U.S.A., and around the world who are having a terrible time coping, and they desperately need something to bring them closer to this event. We have seen it before with the untimely deaths of both Princess Diana and John Kennedy, Jr. They are drawn to the World Trade Center and not just out of curiosity. They need something, maybe answers, but of course there are none.
A part of me thinks that the viewing site is gauche and exploitive. I can also see the point that carnation made about the World Trade Center paralleling the Pearl Harbor Memorial. I think that in good taste they should not have opened a viewing platform now. They should have waited until the search and recovery mission was completed.
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