It was announced this week that the 9/11 Memorial and Museum was going to charge an admittance fee of $24. This announcement was met with a great deal of derision from families that had loved ones perish on 9/11 and from conservative outlets. The mainstream media was their normal, silent self and ignored the story.
The thought of a museum and memorial dedicated to 9/11 charging such an exorbitant fee is nauseating. I guess they need the money to pay for their incredibly high-paid salaries. As Breitbart.com has reported, the president and CEO of the institution has a salary of $371,307. Eleven members of the staff have salaries of over $170,000 each. Overall, a billion dollars was raised for the institution.
Of course, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum is no stranger to controversy. They do not even address Islam or jihad at all, despite the fact that it was Islamic terrorists that carried out the attacks. In fact, the attackers are displayed more prominently than the victims. This is just sickening, but yet it has happened at the heart of the attack.
Last July, the museum was criticized because they wanted to exclude the iconic image of three firefighters raising the American flag at the rubble of the World Trade Center. The creative director of the museum, Michael Shulan, deemed the photo too "rah-rah America" and too kitschy. The museum compromised by showing three images of the same scene so as to undercut the myth of the "one iconic moment," according to chief curator Jan Ramirez.
This is how progressive liberals work. They need to define the narrative to fit their agenda, and the best way is to control how people remember the attacks.
Pro-American images are bad.
Detailing the barbaric nature of Islamic jihad is bad.
Putting the entire 9/11 attack into the category of a sad accident or tragedy is good. Making money off such an endeavor is even better.
The park of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum only has a single American flag. I'm surprised that they even have that one as isn't an American flag too "rah-rah American"?
I was stunned to learn that unidentified remains of those who perished on 9/11 are at the museum, so if you want to pay your respects to a loved one, you'll have to cough up $24 to do it.
There's a special level of Hell for those running the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. |
