Surveying the WTC Memorial Proposals

Maybe you didn’t like the proposal chosen for the World Trade Center monument. Well, take a look at the proposals that didn’t make it: “All 5,201 of the entries that the jury sifted through went on display at www.wtcsitememorial.org yesterday. Visitors to the site who signed on to second-guess the jury — “How could they have overlooked that?” — probably left with a new respect for the jurors’ devotion and patience in going through the entire lot without pay. Visitors may also have left with a sense that the world cared, no matter how clumsy or inartful the expression.”