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As you enter the site the first thing you would see would be the statue of the firemen raising the flag with the inscription "Greater love has no man but to lay down
his life for his friends" around the base. As you continue along you would enter a covered walkway leading to a theater. The walls of the walkway would be lined with messages people left following 9/11. As you
enter the theater one wall would have faces in relieve with tears flowing from their eyes. On the floor of the lobby would be a representative sample of derbies recovered from the site. The multimedia presentation
like the New York Experience would be shown in three segments the first being the events of 9/11. The second segment would show all the people who tried to bring about nonviolent change. such as Ghandi, Martin
Luther King, Mandells, Gorbachev, Carter, along with the people who placed flowers into the barrels of soldiers and the man who stood in front of the tanks in China. The final segment would show people living in
harmony, kids playing, people dancing, international sporting events, Olympic Games ect.while John Lennon song "Imagine" was playing. Once you leave the theater you would approach a reflective pool with a
lone casket resting on the surface like the King Memorial. There would also be a sunken garden for reflection and meditation. The rest of Ground Zero I would like to see a new home for the United Nations built so
this hallowed ground would be dedicated to World peace. The present UN site would revert back to the city for commercial development.
Martin J. Becker
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