I just think it's distasteful and disrespectful that the murder house was left standing and allowed to remain a private home
though the interior probably doesn't look like it did in 1988
I must disagree. What happened was a horrible crime and it affects us a bit more than the average person because we are so fond of the way how poor Judith Barsi for ever modeled our perception of Ducky, yep, yep, yep.
But if every place where horrible crimes happen, where murders are committed, where tragedies occur were to be torn down as a consequence I'm afraid we would have the regret over a whole lot of destroyed buildings in addition to the mourning for those who lost their lives.
Should the Ford Theater in Washington be torn down because Abraham Lincoln was shot there? Should the tower of London be scourged from the face of the earth because the princes Edward and Richard (10 and 12 years old) were murdered there? Should any private home be destroyed if murder had been committed there? Is it disrespectful to leave these places standing?
I don't really think so.
The example of Lockerbie doesn't really work out because those houses were largely destroyed by the attack itself and had to be rebuild etc. It was not like they had been torn down because they reminded people too much of the fact that high above those houses a bomb had torn a plane apart killing many people.
