A few other items on or near "THE SACRED GROUND"

[TomClash]

As a few may know, I have a far better view of "THE SACRED GROUND" from my office window than Sarah Palin had of Russia from her home window. I also walk near "THE SACRED GROUND" to get lunch, go to meetings, do errands and so on. Here's what I can see from my window on (not near but on) "SACRED GROUND" -

1. Five Port-O-Lavs so the construction workers can relieve themselves while they hammer, torch, carry, weld and do other work "ON SACRED GROUND."

2. A twenty foot container where the workers are throwing excess concrete and other debris "ON SACRED GROUND."

3. Three cranes, ranging from 30 to 50 stories in height.

4. Scaffolding.

5. The steel skeleton of the first two floors of the memorial.

6. Bricks, tools, wood, cement and assorted other construction materials.

Don't get me started on the tourists who travel "ON SACRED GROUND."

[dkf]

1. Sometimes nothing is sacred.

[Vincardog]

2. Please list the commercial enterprises fronting that sacred ground.

[TomClash]

3. There are many including . . .

Burger King, home of the Sacred Whopper. :sarcasm:

I remember seeing dead bodies on top of the "Burger King building" but somehow they still sell whoppers there.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Sure hope there are no plans to have a chapel in that memorial.

[Blue Owl]

5. The sacred ground whose airspace was coincidentally left unprotected the morning of 9/11

n/t

[FarCenter]

6. "SACRED GROUND"? -- Actually it is just a crime scene.

[TomClash]

9. Not anymore

It's a construction site. The area is crawling with workers from Skanska, Bovis and an untold number of subcontractors.

[unblock]

7. how is "sacred" an appropriate term, anyway?

it's not a site of religious significance.

when people die, there is usually a funeral afterwards, almost always at a different location (i.e., a cemetary) and THAT site may have religious significance, but where they actually died is usually not considered to be a site of religious significance, so "sacred", which is a religious term, is not appropriate.

is pearl harbor "sacred ground"? or "sacred waters", for that matter?
is hiroshima "sacred ground"? chernobyl?

[TomClash]

10. That's my point

There is nothing "Hallowed" or "Sacred" about this area. Nothing. And everyone knows it.

[Skidmore]

8. There is nothing sacred about "ground zero" or any other

place where acts of war are carried out. This planet has been so bloodsoaked throughout history that it, in its entirety, should be treated as sacred by all mankind and honored by finding peace and tolerance within humanities untapped resources. Instead, we scar it and ourselves. There is no sacred soil, only marks of shame and scars to the human psyche.

[TomClash]

12. ". . . marks of shame and scars to the human psyche"

A fine turn of a phrase, that.

[mike r]

11. It's only sacred to the 9/11 cult

and the Big Fat Idiot worshippers.