I'd want o put the plaque on Christopher street (I think it was just a block
or two east of the Westside Hwy???been a while since I was last there),
where we'd play stick ball after work, looking directly at the towers.  I
can still hear, "I'm gonna hit the ball to the top of the tower!" ringing in
my ears as we tried our best to knock the ball out of sight.

I'm all up for visiting your basement workshop in the spring - gotta see if
the paint fumes are gone.  Would Coke cans be acceptable along with a beer
bottle donation?

- Pam

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Follett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 8:11 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Thinking about monuments....


In a message dated 3/11/2002 7:06:44 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:




There are about 3000 street-intersections in Manhattan, about as many as
were killed six months ago.



Christopher,

Extending your appeal on the sad state of memorials further. How about on
each intersection a fairly simple round bronze plate set in the sidewalk
with a pointer towards the former WTC with an inscription to wit, "9-11
Viewing Point". I suggest to extend this to all Boroughs & NJ, and only
place plates at locations where the WTC could have been viewed on 9/11. If
there were 3,000 of these placed around it would be a long time before the
memory is erased. It would also place an emphasis on the personal, in that
each viewer had an individual experience, and in that each victim was an
individual. The geographic fragmentation of the memorial may remove itself
from the "building" as victim, from the tendency to see the victims as a
group, and preserve the realization of the widespread impact of the event on
the citizen's of the region.

I think this is an improvement over the 6,000 empty beer bottles... though I
continue quietly to work on the project. Anyone up for visiting my basement
workshop in the spring?

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