NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The sister of a firefighter killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks says she will sleep on a sidewalk across from ground zero indefinitely to protest plans for the World Trade Center memorial. She says the memorial is offensive because part of it would be underground.
Rosaleen Tallon is the sister of Sean Tallon. She and the Reverend Bill Minson went to the offices of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation with about a dozen other family members to ask the rebuilding agency to change its plans.
The families received a handwritten note from LMDC president Stefan Pryor announcing that plans would go as scheduled. Construction on the "Reflecting Absence" memorial is scheduled to begin within weeks. Families have said the design dishonors the dead and is not safe for visitors because the memorial would be partially underground.
Reverend Minson says he would remain at the site 24 hours a day "until there's a change" in the memorial plans. Tallon says she would sleep every night in front of her brother's firehouse using a sleeping bag and his cold-weather gear from when he was a Marine. She showed up just before eleven wednesday night to begin her first night.
Police say someone who sleeps on a sidewalk could be arrested for loitering.
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