In poor taste? It just opened and is all over the news. Some families of the dead are not amused.
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yes, but so is the gift shop at pearl harbor, the holocaust museum, the mlk center, etc etc etc
eventually people will accept it, tragedy loses its impact with age
Are any of those explicitly for profit as opposed to being non-profit and all the money goes back into running the site? This is a for profit entity.
If they're going to sell things on site, they need to use the proceeds to support local mosques.
Like the entire American federal government, for example, or the military industrial complex.
I already get viscerally angry when I have to walk past the memorial to get to the PATH station and see people taking selfies like they're at a Justin Bieber show, and people on the street are trying to sell me some book about it, and I still have fucking nightmares about the shit I saw there and I just can't deal. I've gone out of my way and taken different trains specifically to avoid going past it.
fuck anybody who uses tragedy as an opportunity to make a profit.
I lived about 2 hours north, but my family and I drove down the day after with stuff we bought/collected and helped out where we could. I was helping wash out some firefighters' eyes with water when they came out, and we had food and toiletries and fresh underwear and stuff. I wanted to do more, but I was only 14 so that wasn't going to happen.Ahh, NYC resident?
I lived about 2 hours north, but my family and I drove down the day after with stuff we bought/collected and helped out where we could. I was helping wash out some firefighters' eyes with water when they came out, and we had food and toiletries and fresh underwear and stuff. I wanted to do more, but I was only 14 so that wasn't going to happen.
the sights and sounds and smells and feelings are some of the toughest I've ever had to deal with.
right now I live in the part of NJ right next to NYC, so I end up over that way a lot.
Ahh man, a day you will never forget. Im aussie, and I was crying watching it on the news. Still chokes me up. Couldn't imagine seeing what you saw :/
Ya, I can't watch documentaries of it either... holy crap.