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It remains for our government to recover from this interesting lack of
"intelligence." It remains for us to discover how the airline industry
will "recover" from this lapse. It remains to find the perpetrators of
this act and to punish appropriately. It remains to discover exactly
what this act was supposed to have accomplished and why.

These are all things that "our government" will do. But what do we do?
We know that such acts can't be prevented and we know that such acts
will be repeated. The only thing we as a country can do is to make sure
that such acts are never forgotten nor trivialized.

I propose that when we have recovered some of our sense of who we are
that we require the Federal Government through the National Park Service
to acquire the site of the Trade Towers and make it a National Memorial
to Terrorism. Clear the land and build a series of miniture trade towers
(no larger than 1% scale) and fill these towers with the cremains of all
the victims. Engrave their names on the walls. One tower to be reserved
for the firemen and police that died trying to save others. One larger
tower amongst all the others to be the museum of the event.

(As an aside I would place the name of victims on the sides that most
represented their faith, so although I know that anti-muslim sentiment
will run high, there will undoubtedly be innocent muslim victims and aso
their names should be placed on the east side to face mecca for eternity.)

This park is not for the trade tower tragedy, although what I propose
honors it, but for all American victims of foreign terrorism. The names
of those killed aboard the USS Cole should be memorialized as should
those who died trying to save the American hostages in Iran and anyone
else who is a victim of terrorism.

Politically we have change our perspective that those who died yesterday
were Victims. They were only victims in the sense that they suffered the
consequences of terrorist acts. We should think of them as Martyrs of
Freedom and get the top religious figures to pronounce that whatever
their religious or philosophical beliefs they have now gone to their
just ends (whatever their belief entailed.) No matter what we think of
our foreign policy, no matter what we think of religious beliefs in
order to deprive those who sought to humble us of a victory we must from
this day declare that innocent victims of terrorists get a "free pass"
to their "valhalla." Take away the grief from the terrorists and you
take away the victory.

Write, talk, email to your representatives to support this National
Memorial to Terrorism. Rub this terrorist act in the face of those who
sought get our attention. Tell the World "We heard you, now you HEAR US."

Never forget.