im going back and fourth on the national holiday, i can see the points that people on here have raised and that others have raised. as far as reparations go, the charities have been horrible about getting money out, if anyone watched the oreilly factor last fall, he showed that on a nightly basis. if were talking tax money going to families, i dont have a problem with some of my money going to help someone effected by the attacks, however common sense needs to be applied. the debate about if a janitor should get just as much or less than an executive in the same building needs to go away. the way i look at it is, the executive made more, therefore probably has more expenses than the janitor, therefore i think the execs families should get more. anyway, that was my little rant
as for the wtc site, i say they put back up two 110 story towers, and have a memorial at the bottom. any modification to the original site is unacceptable, and i think it would be changing out lifestyle out of fear of terrorism.