9/11 Memorial Museum Gift Shop Draws The Ire Of Many: ‘It’s A Disgrace’

[hrmjustin]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – There is a debate brewing over whether it’s appropriate for the 9/11 museum gift shop to sell souvenirs at the exact spot where thousands of people died.

As CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer reported on Monday, visitors walked out of the ground zero museum with shopping bags holding souvenir purchases from the gift shop. They could be anything from a stuffed dog to police and firefighter charms by Pandora to a scarf with an imprint of the World Trade Center before the Sept. 11, 2001, attack.

“It’s a disgrace. The selling of trinkets is a disgrace,” said Ted Stankewicz, a retired firefighter from Ladder 119. “This is a place to honor people. Civilians passed away. Civil servants passed away. This is kind of sacred ground. This is not a money-maker. Shame on them.”

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/19/911-memorial-museum-gift-shop-draws-the-ire-of-many-its-a-disgrace/

[Lint Head]

1. Go to Rome or Israel and you can buy crosses and crowns of thorn trinkets.

Corporate commercialism owns us all.

[hrmjustin]

2. indeed. Anything for a buck.

[Louisiana1976]

3. Real conservatives would think it's free enterprise.

I, however, think it's tacky.

[hrmjustin]

5. I agree with you.

[Politicalboi]

4. What, no talking Cheney dolls

"We kept America safe" "There were no attacks during the Bush years", "Go fuck yourself senator" and my favorite "I'm at an undisclosed location".

[hrmjustin]

6. No but I half expected that as well.

[Politicalboi]

9. Give them time

Bush/Cheney dolls, and a video game Escape the Towers.

[hrmjustin]

10. Oh my! I think your right.

[Arkansas Granny]

7. It's highly inappropriate, IMHO.

[hrmjustin]

8. Agreed!

[arcane1]

11. It's tacky, yet completely and fully American.

[hrmjustin]

12. True.

[hrmjustin]

13. editorial: The Sept. 11 gift shop: A national disgrace

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/05/post_819.html#incart_m-rpt-1

[hrmjustin]

14. National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum Opens To The Public

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/21/national-sept-11-memorial-museum-opens-to-the-public/

[hrmjustin]

15. editorial: Sept. 11 Museum is both reminder and challenge

http://www.thedailynewsonline.com/opinion/article_2de1f422-e028-11e3-8a74-0019bb2963f4.html

[hrmjustin]

16. De Blasio Urges Sensitivity After 9/11 Memorial Museum VIP Party Flap

http://observer.com/2014/05/de-blasio-urges-sensitivity-after-911-memorial-museum-vip-party-flap/