There are certain days in American history that stand out among others and they hold a special place in our memories…..days like July 4, December 7 and 9/11…….and then we have personal dates that we hold in our historical memory like anniversaries, birthdays, etc…..mine is 14 October 1967…..my first day in country in the Republic of South Vietnam….means nothing to anyone but me……..

I recently wrote a post on the opening of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum…..it was not met with much enthusiasm….I had a few that disliked it so much that I was accused of being unfeeling and callous…..you see I wrote that in my opinion it was an experiment in profitability not one of remembrance…..that consumerism was invading the whole situation.

But since I wrote my original post the site has had its grand opening……and guess what?  Some of the families were not too impressed with the policies…….

The National 9/11 Memorial and Museum opened last week to survivors, first responders, and relatives of victims—and some of them were shocked to find a gift shop on the premises hawking things like mugs, mousepads, and key chains. At the shop, which will help fund the museum’s operating cost, visitors can buy a “Darkness Hoodie” printed with an image of the Twin Towers for $39, “Survivor Tree” earrings for $64, or silk scarves printed with 1986 photos of Manhattan for $95, the New York Post finds.

“To me, it’s the crassest, most insensitive thing to have a commercial enterprise at the place where my son died,” says Diane Horning, whose 26-year-old son’s remains were never recovered. (Thousands of unidentified remains are in a repository in the museum building.) She calls the museum “essentially our tomb of the unknown,” and slams the gift shop as “a money-making venture to support inflated salaries.” Other visitors, however, say they understand the museum’s need to raise funds, reports Gothamist, which notes that even the Holocaust Museum has a gift shop. NBC News reports that it’s expected to take $63 million to operate the site each year, a cost that will also be defrayed by its $24 entry fee.

My suspicions have been realized……the site should be a remembrance of the casualties not how much money can be made off off the endeavor…..but then that is just my thoughts.  I think this is far more disrespectful than anything that I wrote….

I do not expect those that took offense on my previous post to pay much attention…..after all they have their little brains full of Benghazi bullsh*t and that is more important than this blind consumerism!