I just saw a commercial for a commemorative coin proof for 9/11. It has a segment that can be removed and will stand in a groove on the body of the coin to make a three-dimensional sculpture of sorts of the World Trade Center complex. The removable segment is supposedly cast from silver removed from vaults under the Trade Center wreckage.
I am appalled. What sort of person buys that kind of thing? It's horrific to take actual debris (if that part is true) from a crime against life and turn it into a gleaming collector's item. How could a person sleep at night knowing that something taken from that place of death and grief was recast, marketed, and sitting in their living room for the low, low cost of $19.95? How far will we descend with this sort of thing?
It's almost like the medieval practice of buying pieces of the true cross or the bones of the saints, but without any religious hope of salvation or healing. I know any person has the right to make and market any sort of thing, but I fervently hope sometime in the future people will stop trying to turn a quick buck off other people's tragedies.
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