Too Early To Design Memorial For Sept. 11th Attack Victims

Hans Butzer, co-designer of the Oklahoma City National Memorial, says it is still too early to design a memorial for those who died in the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks. He describes the process that resulted in the Oklahoma City memorial.

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October 11, 2001, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Although it is natural to want to envision how America ought to memorialize those who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, it is still too soon to begin to design any kind of memorial for the dead. We need to address some fundamental questions about the event itself before we can turn to questions of how to mark what happened. For example, was this one tragedy or four? Will there be one memorial or four ? in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and (two?) in New York? If there is more than one, will the efforts to create them be coordinated? Perhaps most important: Who is the 'we' that will make these and other difficult decisions?"

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Building a Democratic Memorial

Wednesday, October 10, 2001 in The New York Times

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