Greetings fellow dialists, On Thursday last a letter from one, David Weston of Stranraer, appeared in the (London) "Guardian" advocating the building of a church on the site of the destroyed World Trade Centre in New York. I felt that this would be inappropriate and my letter in reply was published in the "Guardian" today, Saturday. It reads:
The proposal by David Weston that a church should be built on the site of the World Trade Centre in New York would be deeply offensive to the very many people of other religions and of none who lost relatives and friends there. At Ahikista in Ireland, following the Air India tragedy of 1985 when over three hundred people, mostly Indians and Canadians, lost their lives a large and magnificent sundial showing on the dial plate the exact moment of the crash was erected in a memorial garden. Would not such a non-religious symbol be a more fitting icon than a church? Frank 55N 1W (The dial was, of course, designed by our member, Capt. Owen Deignan.) -- -- Frank Evans
