One thought that this threat has left with me is:
I suspect that not enough time has passed for a memorial to be
created. However much care and thought is put into whatever is erected now
the intensity of response will be amplified in part because we have little
historical perspective. We all know that any museum exhibit can be criticized
for anything and the public works of art are more open targets.
The "political correctness" that interests me is that we
are left with huge collections of "tributes" at the sites of disasters which may
have been intended as temporary but have evolved into things we feel we need to
preserve. I wonder if at some time in the future museum professionals will
start to look at these in the same way we look at items we classify as "pieces
of the true cross." (How many toes did I step on there?)
I apologize if this has been addressed in the thread and I
missed it in the many waiting for me this morning.
Audra Oliver