Tourists treating 9/11 Memorial like a playground

[Takeda Shingen]

while other visitors splash water from the two waterfalls onto their faces to cool themselves on a hot summer day.

Heh, joke's on them. Plaza fountain water is notoriously filthy.

EDIT: While the whole cups and spitting coffee thing is innapropriate, I like the idea of picnicking and having a more casual atmosphere. The only way that the types of people that flew these planes into the buildings win is if we alter our lifestyle to suit them. We should show respect for the dead by making the record of their names part of the daily life of New York City. That's how we win.