Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.
If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.
I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!