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THe artist had the right to her opinion- I think that the nudity was supposed to represent vulnerability (but that's just my opinion, one never knows).
The folks who comissioned the statue likewise had every right to remove it. I just wonder what they were thinking in the first place. I doubt that they had not SEEN the sculpture, or been told it's subject beforehand. In what way does a sculpture of a woman falling from a building sound like a good way to commemorate the day?
That sculpture is a memorial to terror, and that's not what people need to go out of their way to remember- some people remember it EVERY DAY. Everyone will have a different idea of what can and should be taken away from that day. What they need to remember is the unity that came afterwards IMO.
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It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity.-- G.K. Chesterton
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