Twin Towers

[Alex]

I wouldn't specifically seek it out, but I wouldn't have a problem with working in them either.

In the "damaged but repaired" scenario we already have some degree of an answer to that as thousands of people were still working in those buildings even though it at already been the target of a terrorist attack within the previous decade. And, of course, thousands of people continue to work in the Pentagon every day and at least a dozen a day visit a Pennsylvania field.

But then I find the idea of consecrating the place where people died to be odd anyway so I don't really place any talismanic value on the sites of the attacks either. And the sooner the attacks on 9/11 become an end-of-the-newshour footnote every year (as the Oklahoma City bombing already mostly is) the better for society in general (IMO).

A country that dwells too much on the suck in life finds itself killing people for really stupid reasons a couple centuries down the road.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by Alex

A country that dwells too much on the suck in life finds itself killing people for really stupid reasons a couple centuries down the road.

I agree.

I would probably visit the site, no matter what happened with it- rebuild, repaired, or monumented. It is a little strange to hold the ground and do nothing with it by virtue of it being a death site, but at the same time, it would maybe be a little strange to know people died in the place you work. At least, given the mass death. I don't think I'd be weirded out by single deaths or small-scale death.

Given how valuable land is in NYC, it shows how much the memory is valued since they aren't reclaiming the site.