Should the New 9/11 Museum Tell the Whole Truth?

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http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-09-10/news/should-the-new-9-11-museum-tell-the-whole-truth/


Retired fire chief Jim Riches:"It should all be in there."


Sally Regenhard, with her husband Al and daughter Christina, at the John Jay center named for her son, Christian.

Should the New 9/11 Museum Tell the Whole Truth?

Victims' families say yes.
By Graham Rayman
Wednesday, September 10th 2008


For a vivid example of the struggle going on over the legacy of 9/11, one had only to travel last Thursday from John Jay College on Tenth Avenue to the Tribute WTC Visitor Center, across from what was once called Ground Zero.

At John Jay, there was a ceremony to announce the opening of a new center to study disaster response named for Christian Regenhard, a probationary firefighter killed on 9/11.

Speakers noted that there were missteps and outright errors on 9/11 that deserve to be studied, and mentioned the respiratory problems afflicting thousands.

"The response to the disaster was incompetent at best," said Representative Jerrold Nadler during the event. "We have thousands of sick workers who should not be sick, and many responders who died who would not have died had the response been better."

Meanwhile, at Tribute WTC, tourists paid $10 each and filed into a warren of rooms that present a limited version of the story. The exhibit displays crumpled artifacts from the collapses and some quotes about the first hours of the disaster, but without context. FDNY radio excerpts are heard, but there is no mention of the widespread communication problems that day

[wildbilln864]

1. thanks for posting. nt

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2. Hard to put my finger on it, exactly, but...

...the idea of a 9/11 "museum" with only seven years elapsed since the event leaves me a little queasy. Museums are supposed to be about perspective and context. It will take another generation, or two, before we can take that objective view about 9/11. I'm all for memorials. I'm all for remembering the remarkable courage of so many on that day and in the following weeks.

But a museum? Now? Ticky tacky politicky.

edited to add a word.