Musings and Rants from a Progressive Republican in the tradition of Alexander Hamilton and Theodore Roosevelt.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Flight 93 Memorial ...or Necropolis?
Kitty Hawk Visitors Center
$60 milllion and 1200-acres for a plane-crash memorial?? That nearly a 1/4th the acreage of the entire Gettysburg Battlefield site's 5600-acres. The Kitty Hawk National Site has 200-acres, and a nice educational-center and gift shop that cost maybe 2-million-dollars. I fail to see ANY REASON that Flight 93 needs anything even that elaborate. In-fact, anything more than the approx. 40-acres of the actual crash-site from the woods to the road, with a nice 15-ft granite plinth and a graveled walkway, is magalomania and narcissism.