Nine Eleven Decade

Ghoulish Delight · 09-12-2011, 08:27 AM

I'm disappointed to learn that access to the WTC memorial site is by ticketed appointment and involves full airport-style security screening. I do hope that is only a temporary thing while it's new and will be drawing huge crowds that would overwhelm it. Because the irony in that is painful.

innerSpaceman · 09-12-2011, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I'm disappointed to learn that access to the WTC memorial site is by ticketed appointment and involves full airport-style security screening. I do hope that is only a temporary thing while it's new and will be drawing huge crowds that would overwhelm it. Because the irony in that is painful.

Irony? I'm not seeing it. You don't think there should be airport-style security to a site with the biggest Terrorist target on it? Or are you referring to the limited entry? I hope there will be no need for that sometime in the future, but for now they are limiting the space to 1500 people at a time. I don't think there's anything wrong with that limit, or with acknowledging that allowing 5000 people to cram in to that space would tend to defeat the comptemplative purpose of most of those visits.

Moonliner · 09-12-2011, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Irony? I'm not seeing it. You don't think there should be airport-style security to a site with the biggest Terrorist target on it? Or are you referring to the limited entry? I hope there will be no need for that sometime in the future, but for now they are limiting the space to 1500 people at a time. I don't think there's anything wrong with that limit, or with acknowledging that allowing 5000 people to cram in to that space would tend to defeat the comptemplative purpose of most of those visits.

Have you gone through the process of singing up for tickets? Was it easy/hard, were tickets for your visit date available?

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