I tend to divide people into those who sit back and complain, and those who roll up their sleeves and do something. The Weekly Standard ran an uplifting story about how retired Marine Michael Emerson, using private contributions, built a Flight 93 memorial in Union City, California. On the other side of the country, Father Alphonse Mascherino almost singlehandedly restored a 106-year-old church building in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, transforming it into the Flight 93 Memorial Chapel. For more details about these two projects, see http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/485uwagg.asp?pg=2
While the official memorial is swirling in controversy, and suffering cost overruns even before construction has started, a monument to the 343 New York firemen who laid down their lives on that fateful day was completed last year. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/12/wny12.xml
Here are some 2006 photos from the Eagle Rock September 11th Memorial, West Orange, New Jersey: http://news.webshots.com/album/554052476JlClpz
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