Sept. 11 Memorial: How Big Should It Be?

John Tierney argues that the Sept. 11 memorial need not be big in size.

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January 25, 2002, 12:00 PM PST

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

"Turning the whole site into a memorial would leave downtown looking less like New York than like the Mall in Washington an open space that's occasionally useful for public events but more often feels empty and dreary. The proposed 16-acre memorial would actually be big even by the standards of Washington, which is honoring the veterans of World War II with a memorial on the Mall less than half that size (and even that has been criticized as too big)."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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