911 Museum

[Jessie]

Without any politics, what do you think of the charge to enter and the remains being interred in the basement of the museum?
I don't think there should be a fee to enter and I defer to the families of those who's loved ones lost their lives as to where their remains should lie.
Lets not get into the issue of the Islam angle being debated elsewhere.
Just pure and simple, should Americans be charged to see it and should the survivors and families have the final say in where remains should be laid to rest?

 

[Beemerguy53]

This is a privately-owned museum, and the admission fee helps offset the cost of running and maintaining the museum, so I don't have any problem with it.

The 'remains' that are interred cannot be linked to any individual victim, which is why they will be at the Memorial. Again, I have no problem with that...

 

[HeyJoe]

you may not have a problem with the remains being interred in a museum but the families of the deceased do. as far as it being a private museum those lines are very blurry. its location, construction and operation have been heavily subsidized with public money from the port authority of new york new jersey, new york state, new york city and the feds. how does a private museum dictate to families of the deceased where the remains will be interred you may ask. well they dont. its the city of new york that decided they would be interred there. so much for it being privately run. the director and board were picked by bloomberg as mayor. the $24 charge is to cover the large number of museum administrators who are making $300,000 a year up to over $400,000.

 

[Beemerguy53]

you may not have a problem with the remains being interred in a museum but the families of the deceased do. as far as it being a private museum those lines are very blurry. its location, construction and operation have been heavily subsidized with public money from the port authority of new york new jersey, new york state, new york city and the feds. how does a private museum dictate to families of the deceased where the remains will be interred you may ask. well they dont. its the city of new york that decided they would be interred there. so much for it being privately run. the director and board were picked by bloomberg as mayor. the $24 charge is to cover the large number of museum administrators who are making $300,000 a year up to over $400,000.

Well, the question the OP raised was not what the survivors of the victims think, but what we think, and I answered it that way. I have no doubt the families of some of the victims object to interring them at the Memorial; there are too many folks affected by this for all of them to be on the same page, and no matter what decision was made, somebody was bound to object.

As I understand it, there are no specific remains at this point that can be identified as belonging to any specific victim. So where would those families, or you, have them interred? Should each family get a small amount of remains to do with as they please? Should the families hold a vote and bury all the remains together in one place? The bottom line is this: Someone had to make a decision, and while it might not be popular with all -- or even most -- of the victims' families, in time they will likely accept it. For my part, I think interring the remains at the Memorial was probably the most logical thing to do.

Regarding funding and salaries of administrators, etc., I will not be visiting this museum, so the admission charge doesn't affect me one way or the other. I have not investigated this in any depth, and know only what has been said about it in the press...which is the information on which I based my opinion.