The Twin Towers Alliance Petition

The statement below rings as true in 2011 as it did in 2006. The thousands of comments that have been left over the years are just the tip of an iceberg. The question for those who consider adding their names to the petition is not will new state-of-the-art Twin Towers be built, which no one knows, but should new Twin Towers be built, with which most of us have always agreed.

We, the undersigned, share the belief that nothing could be more inspiring to our people, or disheartening to our enemies, than Twin Towers, at least as tall as before in every respect, soaring above Ground Zero.

We believe that the devastation of September 11, 2001 clouded the picture long after the rubble was cleared away and that a thorough public examination of the rebuilding option is overdue and now required before proceeding on an unalterable course.

We recognize no financial or political roadblocks that cannot be overcome if rebuilding the Towers is the will of the people. And, we see no conflict between stunning Twin Towers and a noble Memorial, which belong together on this site that means so much to us all.

We submit that there is only one way to truly heal the skyline of Manhattan and the heart of America: Rebuild the Twin Towers. Doing anything less would leave a permanent scar on the face of New York and diminish a legendary city.




9/11 Families & Close Friends (118)

  • signature permalink Joseph Kessler 12/16/2011

    i want to see what was and bring NY back
    the twin towers didnt have to be back where they were but they should be back somewhere
    someone have the decency to build the twin towers bigger and stronger
    i pray every day that they will be back and the people that died will be at peace
    please god get someone to put them back up

  • signature permalink Paul Davidson * 10/7/2011

    My sister was killed in the North Tower on that terrible day and I believe that the last thing that she and all of the other victims would have wanted is to completely change Manhattan’s skyline, showing the terrorists have succeded in altering us forever. No, they should rebuild the towers and bring back the perfect skyline that was Pre-9/11 NYC. NOT the Freedom Tower!

  • signature permalink Charlie Giordano * 10/1/2011

  • signature permalink Ricardo Escobedo 9/8/2011

  • signature permalink Cameron McCoy * 9/1/2011

    Why did they have to go down! All those people who risked their lives for all those others. We should care for them!

    TTA Note: We agree that our primary responsibility in this country is to properly take care of those who risked their lives. That is what this fight is all about — demanding government that is responsive and responsible, instead of arrogant and dismissive. That is what new Twin Towers would stand for — instead of the middle-finger to the American people our government is building now. We know that the people who are working on it and reporting on it have been badly misled — but when the evidence in “The Swindle At Ground Zero” is released, they’re sure to agree.

  • signature permalink Yahia Asrawi 8/9/2011

    As a human all people lost in 9/11 they are my family so I lost Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, son. I wish that I could do any thing for this tragedy I mean any thing also I ready for joining the US army without salary.

    We are used to see Manhattan with the beautiful Twin Towers and the other building and I wish to see them again.

  • signature permalink Nathan Faynzilberg * 8/6/2011

    My Aunt died on 9/11 because she was in the South tower and to put salt into open wounds, she was pregnant too. So I would of had a nice baby cousin. Building the free-dumb tower is just a giant disgrace to my Aunt and to all the other family members that were lost on that day. Having the Twin Towers back would be greater than ever. It would be the perfect memorial for everyone that was lost. I think that since all of the people have gone this far to get them back, why not just let them have what they want, it’s not hurting anybody except those retarded terrorists.

  • signature permalink Rocco Casucci III 6/23/2011

    About three years before 9/11, my family went to New York. The image locked in my head is of the skyline as I saw from the top of the Statue of Liberty, of the iconic buildings draped in a blanket of fog, and the Twins rising into what seemed infinity. Years later, knowing that view would never be the same is too upsetting to think about. The Twins were not just buildings, they were icons tragically taken from us. My family lost a dear friend/family member in the attacks, and he along with the others who were lost, if alive would surely want us to keep carrying on, to remember the past but also keep striving to the future. And in this time, there is no better way to do this then the Twin Towers, built exactly as I and many, and surely the lost, would remember them.”

  • signature permalink Vincent Caruso 5/10/2011

    I have no doubt in my mind, and in my Heart. Those awesome Towers should be built back up, and even a few floors higher this time!

  • signature permalink Jennifer Wiezer * 3/9/2011

    We as americans need to stand together to let everyone know we will not be defeated. The replica of the buildings themselfs would be the memorial where you could visit your relatives or friends that might have died there.

  • signature permalink Chris Monson * 2/14/2011

    i lost my cousin that fatal day on the 90th floor of the south tower, it would be amazing to see where he stood 10 years ago to be on the 90th floor on that corner office, over looking the waters of the Hudson, it would bean amazing tribute to him and everyone else who died that day.
    forever R.I.P. 9/11 victims.

  • signature permalink Laur Wexler * 10/7/2010

  • signature permalink Michael Teegarden * 10/2/2010

    My grandparents and sister died in that horrific day inside the North and South Towers! Rebuild the TTII!!!!! It’s beautiful and breathtaking, somewhat better even than the original Twin Towers. Screw the F Tower, rebuild the TTII!

  • signature permalink Heidi Ring * 9/10/2010

    My aunt was in the twin towers when it come down. She was very cool and Nice also and I miss her very much.

  • signature permalink Christina Reilly 8/24/2010

    Please…I beg of you…do not dishonor my friends & countrymen and women who unknowinly died for our country on September 11,2001. Born and raised in NYC, I’ve got a whole lot of friends & a whole lot of family who will never, ever recover from this day, please honor them by building a tribute to them at the site of their 3,000 deaths. Fewer died on the USS Arizona….use that as an example of how to show respect.

    TTA Note: From time to time we will write to the person who has left a comment if it gets cut off or something about it is unclear, so that once we hear back, we can manually correct it. It was unclear whether this particular comment was for or against new Twin Towers, so we wrote to clarify. This morning we got a one sentence reply in bold, red, 24 pt. letters: YES I AM IN FAVOR OF RE-BUILDING THE TWIN TOWERS!!!

  • signature permalink Renee Tatum 8/23/2010

    When I see pictures/movies of the Twin Towers – all I want to do is encourge NYC to rebuild them! Let us fix the flaws. Prove we cannot be beaten down. Construct a glorious courtyard w/ a shallow reflecting pool, place hundreds of underwater screens that gently flutter names and photos of all the couragous people lost there. Play soft healing music that whispers the names of the couragous firemen and police officials that rushed to action. Water & Music will Rejuvenate Our Souls!

  • signature permalink Jack Tolmich 8/14/2010

    I have a friend who thinks building a mosque at ground zero is OK. I tried to help at the sceen after the attack. I have sinced moved to florida but I will never forget.

  • signature permalink Lorraine Corso 7/19/2010

    I am a native New Yorker and I served in OIF 2004-2005.
    I strongly believe we need to send a clear message to the world that if you knock us down we will get back up again!
    We are New York’s finest and we will not go out without a fight!
    I would suggest that the towers be taller than before with a memorial on site.

  • signature permalink Glare Andrews * 7/6/2010

    The fact that we lost those gorgeous towers was bad enough, now they want to build some mother freakin’ Freedom Tower. We should build the Twin Towers back, bigger and more durable than the old ones, just to show the terrorists that they can’t keep us down!
    We didn’t mess up the Pentagon, we didn’t change it at all, granted it was not completely destroyed, they still did nothing to alter what it was!
    Please.
    ~Glare Andrews

  • signature permalink William Dietrich 6/1/2010

  • signature permalink Jim Cashin 5/10/2010

    Bring them back, no questions asked. It’s time that New Yorkers got to decide, not politics and companies. The Twin Towers belonged to New York and they still do. It’s the least we can do to honor those who lost their lives. It will be the most fitting tribute to our brothers and sisters who we will always miss terribly. Nothing will ever fill that void but maybe we can restore a sense of hope and home by rebuilding the towers.

  • signature permalink Justin Lazarow 12/15/2009

    My brother told me about this site and I admire what’s going on here. I’ve lived in NYC forever and nobody wants to see that freedom tower up. I just don’t get it, why in the hell is it so hard to put back what was lost? If it was the Empire State or the Statue of Liberty, they wouldn’t be doing this. What is going on? They’ve got a lot done, so I just hope that the struggle is over soon. The terrorists brought down the towers and we can bring down what’s being built now and rebuild what belongs there.

  • signature permalink Sara Lunini * 11/17/2009

    We need those towers back! For my uncle and brother who both died that day in the north and south towers, and my dad who barely made it out of the pentagon! Those beautiful buildings need to be seen by the new generation, and we all need them back!

  • signature permalink matt angelakos 10/16/2009

    The Twin Towers were the most magnificent towers! NOTHING LIKE’M

  • signature permalink Chaz Lazarow 10/13/2009

    I honestly don’t understand those behind the rebuilding process at Ground Zero. Are they blind to what the people want? Most New Yorkers would actually prefer the Twin Towers be rebuilt, including myself. It makes no sense to simply forfeit to the enemy, build a depressing memorial nobody likes, and build a series of out of place towers around it. My uncle worked there and he is outraged by the Freedom Tower. “Unfeasible” my foot. That sad excuse for progress needs to be taken down right now.

  • signature permalink mark barbuto * 10/6/2009

    i would like and be greatfull for the new and improved twin towers 2. somewhere in all my cousins, one was taken. From the first plain that crashed in to the first tower to be hit. her name was cristine barbuto. we never met before but if the new towers went up i would go in the bulding and and get p.e.a.c.e and prayers out in a better way, and not at two swiming pools. AND A FREEDOM TOWER. that is unacceptable for us as americans. please rebuild, mark barbuto jr

  • signature permalink Clif Eddens 9/8/2009

    I lost my uncle, a.k.a my best friend’s (my cousin’s) dad. Any way to show that we could rebound from this, i support, and that is to rebuild the towers!

  • signature permalink darailyz dadith * 8/30/2009

    i lost my favorite teachers husband here and i lost my boyfriend here a week before us getting married i feel like i will never be able to fall in love again;…………………………i love my baby…*8*13*01

  • signature permalink Michael Grimner 8/4/2009

    I lost my father, an uncle, and a friend…Just rebuild them…

  • signature permalink Linda Loterbauer 6/2/2009

    God Bless the men and women whose lives were lost on that fateful day. God Bless America

  • signature permalink Jose Gonzalez 5/25/2009

    I lost my cousin and dear friend in the 9/11 attacks. There is no doubt in my mind that he would’ve wanted them back taller and stronger. It’s been said a million times over but there is good reason for that… anything BUT the new and improved Twin Towers shows the terrorists (and the world) that we aren’t the people we once were when this wonderful country began.

    Danny, you are always in our hearts and minds.

  • signature permalink Dave Hook 4/25/2009

    Please rebuild the twin towers, it is the best idea for ground zero yet. The freedom tower design is ugly and defeatist.

  • signature permalink Brigid Colhoun 3/25/2009

    My father died in the Twin Towers, and I would love for the Towers to be the way they were. I have recently done a persuasive essay to put a park in the area instead of the Freedom Tower. Although I have a few opposing views, I am with you all the way.

  • signature permalink Karen Blair-Pabon 3/9/2009

    I lost my husband in the WTC attacks in NYC. His name was Israel Pabon and he was a loving husband and dedicated father to our to beautiful daughters. the hardest part for me at this point is that he can’t be here to enjoy them with me, to see them grow, simply miss all that they have acheived in the young lives and was not here to be a part of that. Israel died and to this moment I miss him as much now as when it all happened. My strength was and is our children.

  • signature permalink Joseph Rizzuto * 3/9/2009

  • signature permalink Scott McKinnis 2/19/2009

    The towers were a symbol of success and possibilities…we need them back.

  • signature permalink Rev Dr John Benjamin Tatum DD PhD 12/20/2008

  • signature permalink matthew davis 11/17/2008

    Not to rebuild the Twin Towers is to let the terrorists win!

  • signature permalink James Rogers 9/27/2008

  • signature permalink Noah Ponko * 9/26/2008

    I want to rebuild twin towers.

  • signature permalink Mark Ulrich * 9/16/2008

  • signature permalink Yinery Baez * 9/15/2008

    New York City will not be the same without the towers they should have a similar design at least to represent the towers

  • signature permalink Alex DiMenna 9/15/2008

  • signature permalink Gary Deel 9/12/2008

    My uncle, Joseph Vilardo, died in the 9/11 attacks. He would want the towers back and better than ever! The people that died that day wouldn’t want remorse…they would want their deaths to have STOOD FOR SOMETHING! Anything less than what they were would be a disgrace to the people of New York and those that gave their lives for our freedom. Put them back!

  • signature permalink Nicco Godinez * 9/12/2008

    We need to build the twin towers agian to show that we stand strong. We can’t build the freedom tower its like an empty skeleton.

  • signature permalink Oscar Sanchez Jr 9/11/2008

    Let’s build the towers again and show the World NY is back.

  • signature permalink Harrison Kirby * 9/11/2008

    rebuild the towers why put up the freedom tower? Isn’t that just one of the many things that the towers symblized? Put them back exactly how they were. My parents both would have been dead now if they hadn’t of been so lucky. Withdraw troops and blow up every country Osama Bin Laden is “supposed” to be in. Stop being chickens and get back at them for all the people we knew and loved.

  • signature permalink robert and patricia landes * 9/10/2008

    we will never forget any of you brave people….

  • signature permalink frank perroncino 9/9/2008

  • signature permalink wesley kephart 8/28/2008

    my sister was a firefighter at flight 93 where we live along with the rest of my family. I am the creator and 2nd administrator on the facebook group called rebuild the original world trade center towers. I proudly sign this petition with honor as a 9/11 expert myself. thank you to all who sign this petition and god bless america!

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