TBTM's mission is to monitor and to protest distractions of the proposed World Trade Center and 9/11 memorials from the events of that particular place and time.
The group argued that the proposed historical exhibits, including some critical of previous American policies, could have been viewed by visitors as justification for the attacks.
Burlingame wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal entitled The Great Ground-Zero Heist advocating this.
[2] On September 28, 2005, Governor George Pataki ended plans to include the IFC at the World Trade Center site.
In 2007 when the proposed format of the names of the victims was made public, Take Back the Memorial along with the unions of the uniformed services of New York City objected.