{"id":324314,"date":"2021-08-14T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/9-11-museum-scrapping-20th-anniversary-memorial-is-a-disgrace\/"},"modified":"2021-08-14T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T11:24:08","slug":"9-11-museum-scrapping-20th-anniversary-memorial-is-a-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-11-museum-scrapping-20th-anniversary-memorial-is-a-disgrace\/","title":{"rendered":"#9\/11 museum scrapping 20th anniversary memorial is a disgrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#9\/11 museum scr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing 20th anniversary memorial is a disgrace<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Steve Cuozzo\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As the 20th anniversary of the 9\/11 terrorist attack looms, the National September 11 Memorial &amp; Museum is crying poverty for the second year in a row. This time, it says it can\u2019t afford to mount special exhibitions planned to mark the two-decade milestone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the twin-beam \u201cTribute in Light\u201d was canceled only to win a last-minute reprieve after soon-to-be-ex Gov. Cuomo pitched in state resources. But no such bailout appears in the offing this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, this year, the museum is shamefully restricting the reading-of-the-names ceremony exclusively to the families of 9\/11 victims. No hero firefighters, cops, first responders or emergency workers, who were always welcome until the pandemic eliminated last year\u2019s event, will be allowed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s simply outrageous that the great museum \u2014 a \u201chumanely crafted engine of catharsis,\u201d as I wrote at its 2014 opening \u2014 plans to sit out the 20th anniversary with a diminished acknowledgement of America\u2019s worst terrorist attack and more pleas to pay a visit with tickets starting at $28 each.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No one can blame COVID this time. The ceremony takes place in the open air, where even the Delta virus can\u2019t spread easily. All participants will wear masks. Many or even most will be vaccinated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Remember all the talk that if we didn\u2019t rebuild after 9\/11, the \u201cterrorists would have won?\u201d The museum has raised the white flag to the virus and there\u2019s no turning back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What a wrongheaded, defeatist message for these times. New York City lost 33,000 citizens to COVID-19. The pandemic-stricken Big Apple needs every affirmation it can get of its inherent valor and resilience, qualities that saved us on 9\/11 and in the fraught years that followed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/world-trade-center-footprint.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"People place flowers on the footprint of the site of the fallen World Trade Center during the 5th anniversary.\" class=\"wp-image-19125390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/world-trade-center-footprint.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/world-trade-center-footprint.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/world-trade-center-footprint.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>People place flowers on the footprint of the site of the fallen World Trade Center during the 5th anniversary.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The museum is a masterpiece not only of design but of moral clarity. Its unflinching focus trains our attention on a singular terror: an unprovoked sneak attack that instantly killed 2,996 innocent human beings, sickened countless others, destroyed 14 million square feet of Manhattan, and ravaged the Big Apple economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Long after, we watched the skies in fear of another attack, a different brand of dread than the fear of the virus but every bit as terrible and even more im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, many younger and newly arrived New Yorkers have little idea what 9\/11 meant. To treat the 20th anniversary as business as usual threatens to consign the memory to just another unpleasant hiccup of history such as the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn for Los Angeles or the 1967 power blackout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/911-mourners.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mourners tie ribbons at the base of the last pillar to stand at Ground Zero during a ceremony for the 15th anniversary.\" class=\"wp-image-19125412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/911-mourners.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/911-mourners.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/911-mourners.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mourners tie ribbons at the base of the last pillar to stand at Ground Zero during a ceremony for the 15th anniversary.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To be fair, the museum alone is not to blame for this failure. The 20th anniversary date has been no secret \u2014 for twenty years. And yet Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio planned nothing to make the 2021 commemoration special. The attack\u2019s toll has been lost in their hearts and minds to the politics and phony \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>\u201d of the current crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the museum\u2019s very real budget crunch, the catastrophe\u2019s 20th anniversary should not be allowed to become a shadow of its past commemorations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our finest minds in politics, philanthropy and the arts have less than a month to come up with something fresh. They need to get down to work \u2014 now.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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This time, it says it can\u2019t afford to mount special exhibitions planned to mark the two-decade milestone.\u00a0 In 2020,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/911-memorial-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[75719,114240,100700,71529],"class_list":["post-324314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-funding","tag-8-14-21","tag-9-11-memorial","tag-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}