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Message:: [QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1261156, member: 31533"]Yes, IMO it is very different. Firstly, the memorial for the Arizona has not had it's souvenirs "dug up" and sold, but are other mementos that are more similar to going to Mt Rushmore or another place and buying souvenirs. Second of all, the WTC coins are profiting off a tragedy that is still very fresh in people's minds, and there is no time (the great healer) to give people some ability to do more than react. It is almost like saying "Well, we lost people and buildings, but wow, look at this great treasure - you can own that!" The souvenirs at PH are not doing that. This is more akin to the HSN junk that you see, trying to reach a market simply on emotional feelings. Most people (and I've been to the PH Memorial --- before the souvenirs came out, you had to buy your souvenirs in Waikiki or thereabouts) I think associate going to the memorial with a reverence for those lost, and the souvenir may be just to remind them of that time they went. This is not a rememberance of the time they went to the WTC to show their reverence IMO. This would be more like if someone (within 10 years or so) dug up/recovered coins from the USS Maine and sold them to the masses. They would have sold, but I don't think it would have been right.[/QUOTE]