9/11 Museum execs’ sky-high salaries: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Oversized government salaries and bleeding budgets on the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
I used to be shocked, as I’m sure many different people had been, by the salaries being paid to the executives who run the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. I’m equally involved concerning the quantity of increase over the past couple of years (“9/11 Memorial ‘wages of sin,’ ” Aug. 24).
There is one easy solution to repair this mess: Fire all of them and switch over the operation to Frank Siller and the Tunnels to Towers Foundation. That would put an finish to grasping people attempting to get wealthy from a tragedy.
Kim Gamache
Saratoga Springs
As the mom of a firefighter killed on that evil day, I need to thank The Post for its article relating to the museum’s overblown salaries. It is high time to have the aim of a museum fulfilled with out a sure few breaking the price range.
Aside from the high government salaries, the difficulty of housing the unidentified stays within the basement is a massively neglected situation.
It ought to be identified that households had been by no means given a alternative as to the place they might put family members. We requested quite a few instances to ballot the households and our requests had been ignored.
I discover it sickening that humanity is saved in storage within the basement of the museum.
Rosemary Cain
Massapequa
I used to be a lieutenant within the FDNY on that horrible day. Do these people have no conscience in any respect?
The 9/11 Memorial and Museum is a sacred place that honors all of the harmless people we misplaced that day. This is a whole outrage, and these fatcats ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Rob Johann
Queens
On 9/11, the North Tower collapsed on the US Customs House on the World Trade Center. A customs agent rescued a giant American flag from the building and gave it to me, as I used to be the historian for the retired Customs Association.
I introduced it to the museum group so they may embody it in reminiscence of the destroyed Customs House. When I later toured the museum, I used to be shocked to search out that they not solely uncared for to show the flag, however made no point out of the Customs House in any respect. What an insult to the a whole lot of workers who labored there.
Robert Fischler
Boynton Beach, Fla.
Every single one of the executives operating the 9/11 Memorial and Museum ought to be fired instantly. They are treating this hallowed ground like an amusement park.
These people are nothing more than grasping pigs who’re capitalizing on one of essentially the most horrifying and tragic days in our nation’s historical past to benefit themselves.
They are spitting on the graves of all those that misplaced their lives and ought to be changed by people who will deal with the memorial with the reverence it deserves.
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
Officials of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum are committing a cardinal sin. They’re making obscene money off the deaths of close to three,000 innocents who had been murdered. Have they no disgrace?
Let the National Park Service take over; its officers do their jobs with their hearts, not their pockets.
J.R. Cummings
Manhattan
I learn with disgust The Post’s revelation that the president and CEO of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum was paid $856,216. Who is Elizabeth Hillman — a Clinton donor?
What are Hillman’s {qualifications} that permit her to earn over 3 times the wage of New York City’s police commissioner?
Robert Mangi
Garden City
The executives on the museum need to be fired instantly.
These salaries are an outrage and a rip-off. I guess their jobs contribute nothing — DOGE alert.
Carol Meltzer
Manhattan
With the 9/11 Memorial and Museum working at a giant deficit, and ticket costs skyrocketing, these executives keep giving themselves bonuses, alongside their exorbitant salaries.
Kudos to The Post for figuring out them.
Rob Feuerstein
Staten Island
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