Gothamist: 9/11 Memorial Dedicated in Boston

Snoopy

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:58:51 -0500

One thing that would have stopped them was a secure cockpit area. How many plane skyjackings have there been since the secure cockpit was established? How many before? Pure and stupid on the part of those in charge of airline safety.

Jen Chung

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:01:35 -0500

Spiritof76 is right--hard to say what would have stopped them. But I'll share this anecdote: My dad was on a United flight headed to SF on September 11 that morning. His plane was sitting on the tarmac at Logan because, by then, flight control was told what had happened. When he called me after getting back into the airport, he said he wasn't surprised it happened, he felt like Logan's security was mess.

Spiritof76

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:53:21 -0500

BTW, [9] they didn't do a terrible job on 9/11. Nobody expected box cutters to lead to planes crashing into buildings. If a terrorist did that again after 9/11, then you can say security was incompetent in that regard, but as of now, that scheme will never work again. Which is not to say security is great, since we hear about fake bomb and weapons tests passing through security seemingly every other week.

Spiritof76

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:49:34 -0500

At this rate, every town, village and two-bit burg in the country will have 9/11 memorials finished before NYC does.

ANGRYGOD11

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:31:54 -0500

The memorial should be broken down into small pieces and kept in/by the parking lots, break rooms, locker rooms, cafeterias and time clocks of the security employees at Logan Airport who did such a bad job 9/11/2001. They earned it.

Reflect

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:45:48 -0500

follow the twisting flight paths? Tacky who wants to do that. Its a memorial not a reenactment

Dirk

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:45:37 -0500

Haha... a lot of Boston zingers in the comments....

Gregoire

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:26:19 -0500

This looks EXACTLY like Boston's Holocaust memorial. Do they order these from a IKEA catalog?

Snoopy

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:08:43 -0500

Wouldn't it be more appropriate that the memorial be dedicated tomorrow? It took seven years to build that? I can see why it's taking so long for the Ground Zero projects to be built.

Son of Spam

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:08:38 -0500

The real nice thing about this Boston memorial is that once you are done leaving your respects, you can head downstairs and pick up one of those sexy new iPods.

Dirk

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:32:01 -0500

Yeah, what is the deal with NYC and the lack of any progress on the new WTC? Seven years and it seems like nothing has been done.

aveB4life

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:28:49 -0500

7 years and we dont even have one. truly sad.

nonumentalart

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:23:25 -0500

why does boston have all these modern international style monuments? that thing won't last 30 years