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America’s national museum gave summer tourists a disappointing and strange sight of the Ground Zero flag in what could have been an emotionally charged and thought-provoking exhibit. Instead, the curators seemed to think that the flag and a collection of photographs of the World Trade Center would be better left in a foyer of the Arts and Industries Building, one of the Smithsonian’s most run-down and out-dated spaces...
...Sept. 11, shows the historical progression of different families in one house. Maybe, just maybe, the National Museum of American History, which has both a nicer venue for special exhibits and is visited more frequently than the Arts and Industries Building, would have been a better setting for the flag and photographs...
...Ground Zero flag itself was nonchalantly tacked above a large screen television—oddly enough in a cheap wood hutch—that was showing documentary footage from Sept. 11. There was no particular lighting, soundproofing or any other vestiges of a professional show. Even the guest book appeared to have been some cheap afterthought...
While the exhibit itself was incredibly disappointing, the reaction of the few visitors who got a chance to view the flag and photographs gave a sign of what good shows can bring to the public. Amid the hurried rush of tourists were the adults, young and old, taking extreme care in looking solemnly at each photo. People were taking pictures of the photographs, sitting humbly in front of the documentary footage. Parents were explaining what happened to their older children, but smiling and enjoying the innocence of the younger children—the ones for whom this will not even...
...pledge has the comfort of custom about it, and should certainly be preserved. It's too bad the highly dispensable "under God" language cannot be quietly dropped. Fat chance, of course. Still, the ideal solution, I think, would be to render unto Caesar an affirmation of flag and country but to keep God in our hearts, where he belongs, and out of politics. Christ himself was scathing about pharisaical display. Don't try to nationalize the deity; it's a little cheap. The Almighty likes to work on a case-by-case basis anyway. I'm all for patriotism...