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Originally posted by Cream
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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Here is something I don't hear mentioned in the media. I just heard that the amount of asbestos at the sight is so high, (as much as 7 times the norm). We won't know the true danger at this site until years later when the rescue workers and firemen start getting cancer and other diseases. Not to mention the other people who were around when the towers fell? Who knows what they have all been exposed to?
With all that being said, I don't know how prudent it is to have thousands of tourists visiting that site. And why would you want to? It is a site of mass murder and I don't think it should be treated like an amusement park ride.
Also, I'm not keen on them rebuilding there. I tend to agree with the families, who need a place to go and grieve. They can't do that if there are two skyscrapers built on top of "ground zero".