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Awesome, awesome, awesome idea.
JA, good stuff.
i should remind you of a fairly significant dynamic aids memorial aids quilt memorial personally i would like to see a hiroshima memorial here in the states to remind us that nuclear bomb killed some 181,000 innocent people.
this issue touches upon so many topics on archinect that cross many topic including thinking for yourself about politics which concerns 'groupthink'. memorials are very much a 'groupthink' notion.
French posted an interesting comment there with regard to US obsession with freedom with regard to democray. i would take it one step further and state it is jingoism.
the most powerful memorial i have been to are the landing beaches at normandy. not the tourist spots, not the american cemetary where the grass is spray painted green all year, but just standing on the cliff and imaging in my own head what took place there and how horrible it must have been for young kids coming up those cliffs.
we did not need any physical memorial for the WTC, not with all the bells, whistles, relecting pools and high tech light systems that ran through each submission. being silent sometimes is far more powerful than shouting. we yanks got big mouths.
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