I'm with Indigo on this one.

People who lose a casual friend will feel some pain, but for those who
lost a spouse who was a soul mate, a child, or a compadre... for those
people the pain is still so acute. I never understood the scripture in
Isaiah about "a sword shall pierce her heart" until my husband of 13 1/2
years, (friend of 15) and soul-mate died almost 8 years ago. For 2-3
years, my thought processes were not the same, I just could not click on
all cylinders like I had, no matter how I tried. I came to hate the
consoling phrase..."it's time to get past this now"   and would menatlly
kick myself again for when I had unthinkly said it to friends or
acquaintances 6 months after their losses.

The time will come, but why do you think it generally takes 50 years
before we get around to memorial statutes after wars etc.  Some times it
was 25 as with Vietnam, but for many people In DC, NYC, and Flight 93,
the wound is as acute as last year. Now I understand why some cultures
required 5 years of mourning. Then there's always Queen Victoria......

Mary Kirby
Historic Upshur Museum
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On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:27:38 -0700 Indigo Nights <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> For me, it's a valid piece of art.  It's well put
> together and, in another place and a much greater
> time, it might be appropriate to have such a work.  If
> one thinks of art as art's sake, there is precedent to
> allow it.
>
> But it is in absolute poor taste to erect it now.
> There are far too many people walking around feeling
> the after effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as
> a result of the events of 9/11 to even consider
> leaving it up at this time.
>
> A lot of the great works were not appreciated during
> the creator's lifetime.  They only find their mark
> post-humously.  It may be THAT long before most can
> see the artwork for its artistic value and not see the
> cruelty it evinces today.
>
> Let's be clear.  What happened to the victims of 9/11
> was horrific.  For many, they never found a body.  It
> was lucky if they found whole body parts.  In the
> ruins, as I recall from my reading earlier, they found
> someone's heart.  Just the heart, no other part of the
> body.
>
> While somewhat beautiful in form (if art is form, and
> you're not associating it with what actually
> happened), when you compare it with what actually
> happened, the picture is far too kind.  Falling with
> that velocity would not leave the cranium intact.
> Splatter would be more like it.  I shudder to think of
> what those victims actually looked like, and thank God
> I didn't have to see them myself.
>
> For the survivors of those lost, it was a horrific
> event most cannot imagine.  But let's also be careful
> to put this in perspective with tragedies of a major
> proportion.  Down the road, it may be ok to bring that
> artwork back into view (assuming they take it down
> soon), and the survivors of those lost in 9/11
> shouldn't be allowed, by themselves, to control what
> happens to the nation as it relates to this event.
> For now, we should be considerate of them.
>
> I don't mean to sleight their loss.  Their loss, in
> some ways, is our own, though nowhere near as
> personal.  It will be something they may never get
> over.
>
> But their loss cannot keep the country from
> remembering what happened, and works of art frequently
> serve to memorialize tragic events.
>
> It's simply too soon to put something up that is so
> poignant.
>
>
> --- Deb Fuller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Okay, i seemed to have channeled columnist Jan
> > Herman when I wrote my response
> > as I didn't read his piece until afterwards. :)
> >
> > I looked at the statue again and had the same
> > reaction, to me it looked like a
> > woman falling, not actually hitting the ground.
> > Disturbing, tragic but not
> > worthy of taking it down.
>
>
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