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May 24th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda By Lucy Steigerwald | AntiWar
On May 21, the $700 million dollar National September 11 Memorial Museum opened to the general public,12 years and change after that awful, now-historic day in September.
The museum provoked controversy for years before it even opened. The astronomical cost a mixture of private and government funding to build the thing, as well as the $24 cost of admission is just one sore spot. More painfully, some families of 9/11 victims spent years in court fighting the placement of 8,000 unidentified remains of some 1000 people into a special mausoleum of sorts in the museum. These pieces of human beings are not going to be put on display for gawking tourists or anything, but its perfectly understandable that family members would still find the prospect of bits of their loved ones sitting behind a museum door for all eternity to be distressing. Yet, this is also the fundamental contrast between history and personal sorrow. Though the former is made from the latter, its trickier to know how to memorialize and remember when people who suffered or lost people are still here to witness how a tragedy is preserved.
This conflict was beautifully explored by Buzzfeeds Steve Kandell. In a recent essay, Kandell describes a gut-wrenching visit to the new museum after 12 years of his familys attempts to mourn the sister they loved alone and without any of the pomp and politics of having such “special” grief. Mostly, its a personal piece, but Kandell mentions briefly his trouble with the loaded quality of 9/11. Or at least what came after blowback is not mentioned. Still, one guy mourning his sister should be forgiven for being unable to see the big picture; particularly when seeing the death of a sibling turned into a drop in the grand bucket is a large part of what upsets him.
The 330 million people who tolerated two aggressive wars and a decade and more of hysteria after 9/11 are another matter. And this brings up the question, what should be done about 9/11, historically? Can you make a museum about such a political moment to use the most banal term for murder being paid back by more than two orders of magnitude when it is still rippling throughout Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and all over the Middle East? When it is still being used to justify an incomprehensibly vast global spying enterprise? And when it gave us not only the PATRIOT Act, but also what one writer dubbed “the most dangerous sentence in U.S. history,” the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)?
You cant. Even Washington DCs Holocaust Museum, which includes bunks from Buchenwald, Raoul Wallenbergs passport, and other eerie, powerful objects ends with an uncomfortably pro-Israel feeling. Maybe this is a US sickness, but it seems that there must be always be a message, a false hope at the end, or a people avenged. It cant just all be meaningless bloodshed, after all. Go check out any war memorial (except, arguably the Vietnam war one). You cant honor the dead when youre still using them to fuel wars, so you had better make their death mean something big. Or, as Charles Madison says in the classic antiwar film The Americanization of Emily, “The rest of us who make heroes of our dead and shrines of our battlefields we perpetuate war by exalting its sacrifices.” The soldiers who were conscripted and the ones who volunteered are mixed together as one in every troop tribute. Theyre all heroes, no matter what. The 9/11 victims are the same. This is so vile, and has been used to justify so much misery, that a few family members being outraged by the museums gift shop is really too much to worry over.
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