Even FDNY dog vests…
Via Daily Mail:
Want to own a piece of a national tragedy? All you need is $20.
September 11 survivors and victims’ families are outraged over a gift shop attached to the new 9/11 museum in Lower Manhattan.
The store associated with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum sells items ranging from key chains to NYPD dog vests marketed off the tragedy.
Jewelry, mousepads, magnets, flags, pins, stuffed animals, cellphone cases, toy firetrucks and much more are available for purchase.
According to the museum’s website, the proceeds benefit ‘developing and sustaining’ the memorial which is run by executives with privately-funded six-figure salaries.
The idea of a gift shop alone is offensive to many, but is made even more painful considering 8,000 unidentified remains of victims were recently moved to a tomb beneath the museum.
‘Here is essentially our tomb of the unknown. To sell baubles I find quite shocking and repugnant,’ Diane Horning, who lost her 26-year-old son Matthew in the attacks, told the New York Post.