Opinion

Honoring 9/11 the right way

The Issue: How to rethink the 9/11 Memorial and Museum to get the project finished.

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With coruscating directness, The Post has shown the way forward regarding the 9/11 Memorial and Museum (“A More Modest Museum,” Editorial, June 18).

Because of the Port Authority and the Memorial Foundation, the process has been fraught with political influence resulting in a corrigendum that only federal control can rectify.

Is this to be a monument to America, or just one to the politicians and the powerful?

James McCaffrey

Yonkers

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Since 1905, the Daughters of the Texas Revolution have maintained the famous Alamo in downtown San Antonio. It includes an IMAX theater, picnic grounds, museum, gift shop, security and volunteer guides.

It welcomes over 2 million visitors a year and depends entirely on private contributions and gift shop sales.

The difference is that in Texas they did not feel it was their place to replace history with a monumental vanity project. In sophisticated New York, however, we are much wiser — and broke.

Michael Burke

The Bronx

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Kudos to The Post for its excellent editorial — it’s exactly what many 9/11 families, including mine, have been advocating for during the past 10 years.

However, the Memorial Foundation has consistently ignored all input from the majority of families. The Post’s suggestion to bring the museum above ground and into the light is what we always appealed for.

And the frenzy to put a performing arts center at Ground Zero is a sacrilegious and wasteful plan that must be stopped.

It is amazing that the politicians, stuffed suits and fat cats could not think of this most appropriate solution, while The Post has done it for free.

Al Regenhard

Woodlawn