Firefighters Pull Support From International Freedom Center

We've told you previously about the problems with the plans for the International Freedom Center which is to be housed on the World Trade Center site. Now the firefighter's union in New York City has withdrawn their support for the project:

A union representing 22,000 active and retired firefighters announced Tuesday it has withdrawn its support for the foundation overseeing development of a memorial and other structures at the World Trade Center site.

Steve Cassidy, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, cited objections to the planned International Freedom Center and a Drawing Center, which detractors say could include anti-American exhibits and draw attention from a planned memorial museum.

Cassidy said in a statement that his "membership and our 9/11 families believe that the memorial design will take away from the memory and sacrifice of the firefighters who bravely gave their lives during the most horrific terrorist attacks our country has had to face."

Given the 343 firefighters who died in the World Trade Center collapse, I would hope this decision by their union would carry some weight with the project's designers.