It was a French group, La Fondation de l’Attentat du DC10, that put up the memorial. There's no indication that the cost of the memorial was anywhere close to $

It was a French group, La Fondation de l’Attentat du DC10, that put up the memorial. There's no indication that the cost of the memorial was anywhere close to $170 million. I suppose you can argue that we should never build memorials, since we could better spend such money on other things.