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September 12, 2005
The Human Element - Idea for the 9/11 Memorial
Considering all the arguments that have sprung from the effort to design a 9/11 memorial, I thought I should try to help by coming up with ideas. For quite some time I was at an impasse, completely starved for ideas. Then today, while I was in the dorm cafeteria drinking a mysterious brown beverage, I was struck with a blinding insight: a memorial garden!
Let's face it, all Americans love flowers and trees, so a memorial garden would have something for everybody.
In order to give the memorial a multi-cultural feel, we could fill the garden with plants from all over the world, like Oleander, Mistletoe, Water hemlock, Lily of the Valley, belladonna, and wolfsbane (just to name a few).
This could also solve the Gitmo problem. We can give captured terrorists a choice: they can go to a damp, dark, cramped prison cell with a guy named "Bubba," or they can drink a commemorative tea made with plants from the 9/11 Memorial Garden.
I think it would concentrate the mind wonderfully.
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