The Triangle

Issue date: 6/24/05 Section: Ed-Op

Media Credit: The Triangle Mack

Mrs. Burlingame is the sister of Capt. Charles Burlingame III, pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on the September 11 terrorist attacks. She's also pretty angry. Why? It seems the World Trade Center site, the most hollowed ground in contemporary America, is suffering a second attack; a second betrayal. The memorial which will occupy this site, she opines, is about to be dedicated to something other than our nation's collective tragedy.

Mrs. Burlingame wrote a commentary for the Wall Street Journal, in which she stated: "The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation will have erected a building whose only connection to September 11 is a strained, intellectual one. While the IFC is getting 300,000 square feet of space to teach us how to think about liberty, the actual Memorial Center on the opposite corner of the site will get a meager 50,000 square feet to exhibit its 9/11 artifacts, all out of sight and underground."

"Wait a second," I thought. She has to be kidding me. There's no way that any governing body would let hollowed ground become a shooting gallery for radical ideologues. Well, I was wrong. The International Freedom Center (IFC) is in charge of the content of the memorial site. One of the educational centers proposed is the 300,000 square foot building Mrs. Burlingame described. What lurks inside this structure that is on the same ground where the World Trade Center once stood? The advisory board of the IFC is as telling to the content as it is disturbing.

Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, has campaigned the board for exhibits on the ... degradation ... of civil rights since the 9/11 attacks. Eric Foner, a far-left professor from Columbia University, who stated, "the only true heroes are those who find ways to defeat the U.S. military." Then there's George Soros. Google his name, if you must, but he's the mastermind behind MoveOn.org.

Yes, the ACLU sounds like such an appropriate organization to be backing this memorial, but their culture of baseless partisan attacks, and support of illegal immigration, mare any chance of a wholesome participation in the memorial's planning. Radical left professors from Universities who call for more "Mogadishus" (referring to the military operation in 1993 where the U.S. won the battle, but lost the war), scare the living daylights out of me. George Soros is so partisan and offensive, that he is part of the reason John Kerry lost the election. These "advisors" are doing nothing more than advancing their own horrid agenda: Make America submissive, "understand" the terrorists.

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