Yesterday our President has dedicated the new 9-11 Museum that honors the lives lost and the actions of the first responders at that tragic day. It is very important that victims and the heroes be memorialized, as they no longer have a voice of their own and some remains have not even been identified or found, not giving their families the proper closure. I personally have not been yet at the Museum and what I am about to say is based just on me reading the articles describing it, so I may be completely wrong.

I believe that a Museum dedicated to the events of 9/11/01 that just focuses on that particular day and the recovery thereafter without educating the public of the events preceding that day is not telling the full story. As I understand it, the museum does contain the photos and names of the plane hijackers. However, it does not fully explain how Al Qaida was created and funded initially and what countries have then harbored and materially supported it throughout its existence.

I find it often that Americans like to whitewash terrorism and treat it almost like any other tragedy, like a natural disaster. However, this disaster was man made and one of the points of the museum should be to educate the future generations of the dangers of radical Islam and to urge to wage war to stamp it out wherever it should be found. It seems that it is not politically correct in USA to talk about the dangers of extremist ideology of a religion but in my opinion, it must be done.

Michael Levitis