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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:32 am Post subject: 11Sep11 - LONDON - Unveiling 9/11 Memorial
This is possibly a sensitive opportunity for some organised leafletting. see bold for planned propagandist teaching to school kids of 911 terror attacks
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London to unveil 9/11 memorial - crafted from World Trade Center wreckage - on 10th anniversary of the attacks By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 3:41 PM on 20th December 2010
London will commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 by erecting steel girders from the wreckage of the World Trade Center.
Sections of the ruined skyscrapers will be transformed into a permanent tribute on Potters Fields Park, beside City Hall, to honour the attack’s 2,977 victims.
The girders have been given by the Port Authority of New York which is sending others to cities around the world for similar projects.
Artwork crafted from the wreckage of the World Trade Center will be unveiled in September to commemorate the 10th annivesary of the attacks
The sculpture will be erected on London's Potters Fields Park, beside City Hall
The idea is the work of the 9/11 London Project Foundation, a charity which will also launch a major educational programme in September to teach schoolchildren about the terrorist attack.
The programme is being drawn up by Professor Geoff Whitty, director of the Institute of Education.
'We have been set up to ensure that the legacy of 9/11 is to build hope from tragedy,' said foundation spokeswoman Sarah Matthews.
'We will cover the events of 9/11 and its background, its consequences and its legacy.'
New York artist Miya Ando, who designed the sculpture which will stand up to eight metres tall, said the project was 'an incredible honour'.
'My intention is to create a work that will serve as a visual symbol for peace and tolerance and which also looks to the future,' she said.
But Jilly Finch, 59, secretary of the local Shad Thames Residents Association, said the sculpture was 'violent'.
A total of 2,977 people were killed when Al Qaeda militants crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center
She said: 'It’s so in your face that people won’t be able to pass by or overlook it. It’s not something that promotes peace — it draws attention to violence.'
The project has the backing of Southwark council officers, who recommend that the council’s planning committee approve the project tomorrow.
The anniversary will be marked at the site of the attacks in New York by a giant fountain.
The official 9/11 Memorial fountain will blast 26,000 gallons a minute over the 30-foot deep black granite walls, and was successfully tested earlier this year.
A second fountain where the south tower used to stand is also set to be tested. Together
I did email Miya last year to ask if she would use 3 pieces of steel- one from each tower that collapsed
looks like the site was changed from Potters Field to Batersea Park unless my london geography is wrong. _________________ JO911B.
"for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places " Eph.6 v 12
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