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9/11 families against new WTC Memorial design
www.chinaview.cn 2006-06-28 06:54:30

    NEW YORK, June 27 (Xinhua) -- A number of the Sept. 11 victims' families raised objections to the latest World Trade Center memorial plan on Tuesday, the final day for offering public comment on the new design.

    Some relatives are against Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor George Pataki's proposal for a random display of the victims' names at the memorial.

    Many families want the names arranged by the towers in which the victims worked and died, by affiliation, and by floor, with their ages also listed.

    Some family members spoke out against the plan when interviewed by local media organizations.

    Monica Iken, who lost her husband on Sept. 11, said the issue is not about the names, but rather the victim's face and who he or she was as a person. "So I'm not actually going to the memorial to honor his name, I'm honoring him because that is his final resting place for me."

    Charles Wolf, who lost his wife on Sept. 11 also objected to the idea of random names, and putting the corporation's names on the memorial, saying it begins to look like sponsorship. He stressed the need for "some sort of ordering of the names by tower."

    The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the agency in charge of the WTC site reconstruction, is scheduled to vote on the final designs Friday, but observers here noted that without the families' support, fundraising could be difficult.

    The scaled-down plans have been on public display at the Center for Architecture in Greenwich Village since Thursday. Enditem

Editor: Chen Feng
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