A couple of weeks ago, the New York Post ran an Op-Ed piece about the proposed 'monuments' commemorating Flight 93 and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and comparing them to the Vietnam Memorial, and other recent memorials.

As the author of that article pointed out, the proposals were dramatic in not actually representing much of anything - a grassy field for Flight 93 and reflecting pools for the WTC. And the author was quite correct to comment negatively that the...