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Cityslob 09-06-2011
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Dear Friends,
We are just days away from dedicating the National September 11 Memorial.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the people from all across the country and the world who have been a part of this project, making over 600,000 donations and following our progress, from the installation of our first steel in beam in September 2008 to today. The opening of the Memorial would not have been possible without your generous and heartfelt support. Most significantly, thank you to the families of those who were lost on 9/11--no aspect of our work is more important to me than paying tribute to the memory of your loved ones and we feel honored that many of you have shared with us your thoughts and memories over the years.
I also want to recognize the thousands of men and women who have worked so hard over the past ten years to make every aspect of this Memorial fitting and beautiful. From the arborists who cared for the Memorial's oak trees to the plumbers who built the waterfalls for the pools, to the talented metal workers who created the bronze panels bearing the names of the men, women, and children taken from us too soon--every person involved has demonstrated through their work that building this Memorial is as much a privilege as it is a responsibility.
We look forward to welcoming the families of those who perished on the 10th anniversary and the public the following day. Please remember that while construction continues on the other World Trade Center projects, free visitor passes are required to visit the Memorial. To reserve your free pass and plan your visit, please go to www.911memorial.org.
Warm regards,
Joe Daniels
President and CEO
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08-25-2011
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CITYSLOB
02-14-2011
07:59 PM ET (US)
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At Ground Zero, a sham memorial:
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CITYSLOB
02-14-2011
07:58 PM ET (US)
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victim's brother says the plans insult our history
BY Michael Burke
Sunday, February 6th 2011, 4:00 AM
Warga/NewsView of Ground Zero taken from 7 World Trade Center Sept. 2010. Related News9/11 memorial design update includes WTC columnsEditorial: Stamp out the coin9/11 coin has former cop's blood boilingMourners give 9/11 responder a hero's farewellCharlie, K-9 dog who scoured WTC after 9/11, is mournedFirefighter dies from toxic 9/11 dustThe con job at Ground Zero is not some lame memorabilia company selling fake coins. By focusing on easy targets like the National Collector's Mint, the media have missed the real fakery: the billion-dollar, 8-acre National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center. It is no more authentic than those infamous commemorative coins, but a lot more harmful to the memory of those who died there.
The fact is that the memorial will include nothing of the 9/11 attacks or the World Trade Center. Remember the steel remnants of the destroyed towers? Visit the "9/11 Memorial Preview Site" on Vesey St. and their images are everywhere. And though there will be an underground museum beneath the memorial that will contain physical remnants of the towers, no such artifacts will be part of the street-level memorial itself.
Remember Fritz Koenig's "The Sphere?" For 30 years, it stood on the World Trade Center plaza as a symbol of peace. It survived the 9/11 attacks and was embraced as an icon of American perseverance. However, it will not be part of the "national" 9/11 memorial. Other artifacts, such as the crushed fire trucks and flyers for the missing, will also be hidden out of sight deep in Manhattan's only subterranean museum.
The victims - these include my brother, city firefighter Capt. William F. Burke Jr. - will be identified not as victims of an attacks on America but as "lost" to causes unknown. The words "firefighter" and "police officer" won't be part of the memorial.
Everything that should remind us of the attacks will have been eliminated from the site by the time the memorial opens (partially) on the attacks' tenth anniversary. Why? As the 13-member jury that chose the memorial put it, "to protect the integrity of the design." That's right: the "integrity" of the memorial depends upon it rejecting history.
The memorial will wipe away all evidence of the attacks and replace it with trees and waterfalls. This is like covering Gettysburg with asphalt. Everything we remember 9/11 by, all that we embraced after the attacks, will be replaced with a tribute to the narcissism of elitist intellectuals, artists and politicians. What if past generations had done that at Auschwitz or Hiroshima?
And let's not kid ourselves about why this is happening. First, it's because of our love affair with ourselves. We are convinced that all history began with us and that nothing else matters. So we remake Ground Zero to pander to "what all of us...need and deserve," as the jury that dictated its concept pompously pronounced.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/0....html#ixzz1Dz7Nb8aB
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CITYSLOB
02-14-2011
07:57 PM ET (US)
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Our only obligation today is to ourselves - to our need to "heal" and mourn what we do not have the courage to acknowledge. The jury described its task as "how to commemorate at Ground Zero the countless accumulated memories of the attacks" and promptly settled on jettisoning from the site all memories of 9/11.
"Let us begin by acknowledging that memory belongs primarily to the individual" the jury said. To understand what they were up to, replace "memory" with "truth." And because the "truth" of 9/11 cannot be merely what we witnessed, the artifacts that would testify to the event actually interfere with the tightly-controlled memorial "experience" script. This is a neat way of denying 9/11.
So it goes in our self-centered times. Memory may belong to the individual; truth does not - as we learned, or should have learned, on 9/11. Pretending that we can redefine the attacks as we please does not protect us from terrorists. That is the painful truth the memorial tries so desperately to scrub from our minds.
At Ground Zero, we have other priorities: namely, our feelings. Mayor Bloomberg sold this design, the integrity of which depends upon a denial of 9/11, by reminding us to "never forget" and promising "never again." But this is all self-serving hot air, and he knows as much - but doesn't seem to care.
And what of Maya Lin's Vietnam War memorial? An esoteric, minimalist work of art, it has become the standard for all contemporary memorials. But that the jury (on which Lin sat) used it as its model only illustrates how misguided its thinking was. Her memorial is an abstract concept designed to commemorate a war fought thousands of miles away. None of Vietnam's battles were fought on the National Mall; none of those named on that wall died in Washington; it did not replace an authentic artifact such as a downed American aircraft.
Ground Zero, the jury failed to notice, is the historic site of the event. We do not have the option of not confronting the attacks when we are there. But at Ground Zero, a handful of elites will control what you can know in order to dictate what you should think and feel. That's exactly why what we are building at Ground Zero is such a disgrace - in fact, it's an obscenity.
Burke served on the family advisory committee for the National September 11 Memorial and MuseumInstead of waterfalls and trees, how about some real history?
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/0....html#ixzz1Dz70iXrV
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Cityslob 01-25-2011
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We need more money, I need more money, give me more money.
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Cityslob 01-25-2011
01:05 AM ET (US)
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9/11 museum bigs cash in
Kids' small donations pay for inflated salaries
By ANNIE KARNI
Posted: 1:34 AM, January 23, 2011
Comments: 63 More Print EXCLUSIVE
Schoolchildren thought their penny jars and bake-sale proceeds would go toward building a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero -- not the six-figure salaries of nonprofit execs.
But 11 staffers at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum each pulled down more than $170,000 in total compensation in 2009, according to the most recent filings. Four execs took home more than $320,000.
Foundation President Joseph Daniels, 38, pocketed $371,307 after receiving hefty raises three years in a row -- 28 percent in 2006, when he was promoted from acting president, followed by 12 percent and 6 percent.
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PENNY ANTE: These girls each donated $1 to the 9/11 foundation, while its president, Joseph Daniels (above), was paid $371,307.
Museum director Alice Greenwald made $351,000, and capital planning Vice President Joan Gerner soaked up $337,143 before leaving last spring. Development director Cathy Blaney raked in $322,292. The full-time foundation employee also worked last year as a fund-raiser for Gov. Cuomo's election campaign.
The money to pay the $5.3 million in compensation for the foundation's 87 staffers in 2009 came from private donations -- $220 million raised in a Herculean grass-roots effort to honor the 2,974 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and $150 million from blue-ribbon board members. More than 60,000 individuals in all 50 states and 31 countries donated to the cause.
The rest of the foundation's money -- about $330 million in tax funds from the state and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. -- is earmarked for construction of the $610 million project.
Donors ranged from Ohio high-school students who raised $14,000 by completing a 650-mile trek from their Toledo suburb to Ground Zero, to pupils at Bethpage HS in New Jersey who collected $746 in pennies.
Teacher Shawn Clincy of the Mary Volz School in Runnemede, NJ, whose middle-school students raised $1,000 knocking on doors, was shocked by the salaries. "They're taking money from 13-year-olds who went out and collected donations. That doesn't sit right with me," he said.
Michael Burke, whose firefighter brother, William, was killed in the attacks, questioned the generous pay: "These guys are making a fortune -- it seems extravagant."
Sandra Miniutti, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit watchdog Charity Navigator, said the salaries were "on the high side for a comparable-sized organization." The average base salary for a CEO of a mid-size foundation like the memorial is about $160,000, and second-tier managers usually make much less, she said.
The memorial and museum is being built on 10 acres at Ground Zero, featuring two large reflecting pools with manmade waterfalls set within the footprints of the Twin Towers.
Originally scheduled to open in 2009, the memorial designed by Michael Arad and Peter Walker will be unveiled two years late, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The museum is expected to open in 2012, also two years late.
The underground 100,000-
square-foot museum will exhibit the iconic "survivor stairs" and "last column" and donated artifacts from the site and victims' families.
The foundation defended the salaries disclosed in IRS tax filings reviewed by The Post.
"We're setting up a venue that will be the highest drawing venue in New York City," said board member Tom Roger, who lost his daughter on 9/11. "You don't bring in your typical, well-meaning nonprofit person off the street to get that done. Once it's opened and operational, the salary structure will . . . come back down."
Foundation officials pointed to the compensation package of $456,558 earned by the head of the American Cancer Society's Eastern Division, which has similar annual revenue of $96 million.
Mayor Bloomberg, board chairman, said, "They're paid only a fraction of what they're worth, but at a level similar to people at comparable nonprofits."
High-priced execs
Highest earners at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum (2009 total compensation):
* Joe Daniels, President: $371,307
* Alice Greenwald, Executive VP for Programs: $351,100
* Joan Gerner, Executive VP, Capital Planning (Left in Spring 2010): $337,143
* Cathy Blaney, Executive VP, Development: $322,292
* David Langford, CFO: $224,113
* Luis Mendes, VP Design and Construction: $221,429
* Lynn Rasic, Senior VP, Public Affairs: $214,270
* Noelle Lillien, General Counsel: $193,316
* Suany Chough, Senior Adviser, Design Construction and Planning: $190,831
* Allison Bailey, Chief of Staff to President: $171,417
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhatt...zYPzN#ixzz1C1YlIonn
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