The Issue: Small reservation fees for tickets to the 9/11 Memorial, which was planned to be free.
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As the mother of slain firefighter Michael E. Brennan, I feel this reservation fee is wrong and should be discontinued as soon as possible (“9/11 Death ‘Toll’” April 14).
All visitors to the 9/11 Memorial should be afforded the courtesy to plan their day in NYC without having to pay a reservation fee to honor our loved ones tragically killed that 9/11.
Maybe the museum officials could cut some of the overhead costs, including salaries, without implementing a reservation fee.Eileen Walsh
Sunnyside
The victims of 9/11 include veterans of the US military, like my son, Christian Regenhard, who perished on 9/11 because he was an FDNY firefighter.
As a former recon marine sergeant who devoted five years to his country, why should his USMC and firefighter brothers have to “pay to grieve”? What has happened to honor, respect and dignity at the 9/11 Memorial?
This is just another reason why the 9,000 human remains of heroes and victims do not belong in the basement of a museum at Ground Zero.
They belong in an above-ground crypt at the site or in Arlington National Cemetery — not in a museum tourist trap.Al Regenhard
Woodlawn
If anyone is naive enough to believe that the $2 “booking fee” at the 9/11 Memorial is temporary and “necessary to safely manage visitor capacity while surrounding constructive projects are completed,” I have a bridge to sell you: the Verrazano.
The bridge’s toll was supposed to have been implemented only until the bridge was paid for. That’s what we were told in 1964.
It’s almost 50 years later, and, adding insult to injury, the greedy porkers keep raising it.
Donna Pallante
Staten Island