Comments on: Citizens of Other Nations

by: Andre Gonçalves

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:41:49 +0000

I would really like to see those beautiful monuments built once again. I really hope you get your project to be built. Keep on trying and never give up!

by: Ian Mitchell

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:26:49 +0000

The Twin Towers should be rebuilt as close as possible to the original design. To do anything else is to admit defeat and allow the terrorists to permantly change the Manhattan skyline.

by: Jayde and Jodie Winter

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:58:13 +0000

My sister & I (15 & 9 at the time of 9/11)were glued to the TV that morning & ever since had the urge to go to NYC hopeful that by the time we were older, saved up & planned our trip, the new WTC would be well under way. We were so disappointed to learn of the final design of the Freedom Tower. It is a slap in the face to all those who lost their lives, to the families left behind & to America as a country. The Twin Towers should be rebuilt. When we arrive in NY we want to see the Twin Towers..

by: Emma Crawford

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:21:28 +0000

Im from Northern Ireland and it’s been my dream to live in New York and join The Port Authority Police Department since i heard of the 9/11 attack. A dream i plan to see through once i turn 21 in a few years, I think rebuilding the Twin Towers is a wonderful idea, both as a mark of respect for the men and women who lost their lives that day, and to show the terrorists that America will recover from this terrible tragedy, to finally complete the skyline again, its a terrific idea.

by: Craig Edwards

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:08:12 +0000

We just have to have the New York Skyline back which we all came to love and treasure!

The Freedom Tower has already been plagued with problems, and is costing FAR too much money and is, in my honest opinion, rather odd looking…

Rebuilding the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre Complex will show the rest of the world that whatever is destroyed can be rebuilt the way it was, just how monuments during both world wars were rebuilt and reconstructed after being destroyed.

by: David Quiroa

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:12:21 +0000

For us, the “rest of the world” people, NYC is a symbol. NYC without its twin towers is like Paris without the tower, Egypt without the pyramids, Australia without Ayers Rock, Moscu without the Kremlin. For us, the “Fear Tower” symbolizes the end of an era. Once the Fear Tower is topped, USA will never be the land of the free and the home of the brave. USA will be the land of the fearful. It is sad for us. Is it sad for you, americans? I hope it is too.

by: Gavin Robb

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:47:26 +0000

by: Pavel Roshupkin

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:54:18 +0000

by: Mitch Clark

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:06:19 +0000

If we let the “Freedom Tower” be built, it will undermine the great nation of the United States of America. If we rebuild the Twin Towers exactly the same or taller, it will send a clear message to all of America’s adversaries. You cannot change us for long. I recently traveled to New York City and was trying to figure out where the Twin Towers were. I should not have had to ever do that. I want to be able to look at New York’s skyline and say, “There are the Twin Towers.”

by: Leon Kennedy

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:43:31 +0000

Rebuild the WTC! God Bless America…

by: Andre Silveira

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:45:42 +0000

I love New York City since i was 8 years old.
9/11 was the worst day of my life.
The second worst day of my life, was the day that i saw the Freedom “Fear” Tower Project for the first time.
Please, don´t do that with our classic Manhattan skyline.
Bring our twin towers back!!
Please, we need the TWIN TOWERS 2.
I miss the sunset on the “top of the world” with a friendly tower by my side…
NY, LOVE YOU FOREVER.

by: Marc Cargill

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:47:56 +0000

by: James Calderón

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:29:03 +0000

We owe it to the victims of the September eleventh attacks;

We owe it to all the other victims of terrorism around the world;

We owe it to America;

We owe it to every other democratic state in the world that believes in the values of freedom and peace;

We owe it to the men and women in uniform, who make such massive sacrifice in order to get to the root of the problem;

But most of all;

We owe it to ourselves.

by: jerry vrabec

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:52:46 +0000

by: Matthew Peterson

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:29:55 +0000

New York needs its towers back! It’s the only way to bring the city back to its former glory.

by: Eamonn Mooney

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:08:48 +0000

Please Please Please Bring these amazing towers back dont let OBL Win! These are the true Freedom Towers.

by: Adam Marshall

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:10:16 +0000

I just spent a week in NYC and it is sad to see the gap in the skyline from where the towers once stood. Even if they were to build a memorial shell of the towers - that would be a much better option than the freedom tower. A true symbol of freedom would be to show everyone that NYC is not going to retreat from terrorism but rather that it is going to rebuild and to continue on with life as it was on September 10th. Rebuild the Towers!!

by: adam playford

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:25:42 +0000

In 1989, at the age of 17, i stayed in America for 6 weeks with a family friend and spent a day in New York (august 4th) and went up the top of the wtc as part of the tour i was on. Alas!! It rained for the entire day and there was no view whatsoever from the top as it was enshrouded by cloud! So rebuilding the towers would give me the chance to come back to NY and fulfil my dream of seeing the finest skyline in the world. REBUILD THE TOWERS!

by: Andrew Keller

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:08:59 +0000

As I want to be an architect I agree with the fact that the World Trade Center should be built again. The original Twin Towers looked brilliant in books and I believe that the 16 acres at Ground Zero should be rebuilt. As long as they were better-looking, more protected and had the same facilities as well as a memorial I agree that the WTC should be rebuilt!

by: Paul Simmonds

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:56:14 +0000

by: christof roche-gordon

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:43:02 +0000

America wasn’t built on compromise or trying to please everyone. Knock her down, she got up again and stood taller. This is not the case with the Freedom Tower. It represents a weak and scared America that is compromising itself. The Twin Towers were stark, brutal and singularly beautiful, and were representative of a time in American thinking of hope, determination and daring. The ONLY way is to build them again, Taller, Stronger, and more Determined. Put back America’s hood-ornament.

by: Robin Kleinsteuber

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:29:27 +0000

I would ask that the victims of the September 11th, 2001 attack in the Twin Towers be given the respect and dignity that they deserve, and that very careful consideration be given for a Twin Tower replacement, and a Memorial that will respect and honor these 9/11 tower victims and the killed rescue workers. Thank you.

by: Gary SHERIDAN

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:17:48 +0000

The Twin Towers were not just the symbol of the Generation X, they were the symbol of New York, seen in the background shots of many popular sitcoms and motion pictures. We all know about The Statue of Liberty and The Empire State Bld, but to my generation, the Twin Towers of the WTC represented our time. I don’t think the Freedom Tower should try to fill these shoes. Please re-build the Twin Towers, and provide an observation deck. How about it Mr Trump?
Thank you. Gary Sheridan, SYDNEY.

by: Ryan Onodi

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:08:21 +0000

Send a message to the world that they can not change anything no matter what they do.

by: Daniel Ripley

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:54:25 +0000

Greetings from Canada! Im signing this for many reasons. Rebuilding the WTC’s Twin Towers bigger and stronger is just a very powerful message and definitely something to remember. The original WTC served New York in many ways from well World Trade to tourism and those who just like to gaze up at them. One more thing is that the Freedom Tower is just not the same especially when replacing the most famous twinned structures in the world. If they’re built il bring a Canadian Flag to the WTC if I go.

by: Hugo Castellanos

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:59:52 +0000

If you look at the design of the tower of freedom it’s actually not that bad. That being said, there should be two of them!! The smaller one should be 1776 ft tall, and the bigger one including the antenna should be some 2000 feet tall… I would say… The twin towers looked like glorious guardians of Manhattan, like the collosal guardians at Abu Simbel… the new design looks exactly the same as other major cities’ skyline… how sad!!!

by: Rosemary Warhurst

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:28:58 +0000

by: Lee Bradshaw

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:44:19 +0000

I had the privilege of visiting New York in early 2006 and so many New Yorkers in their homes and places of business had posters or framed photographs on their walls of the New York skyline WITH the Twin Towers in all their beauty. Rebuilding them is not to disrespect those who have passed, but to help us remember what they unwittingly died for - freedom. I should very much like to pay my respects again when next I visit New York, not to a hole in the ground, but to the rebuilt Twin Towers.

by: Markus Prechtl

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:09:06 +0000

Nothing fits as good to the skyline of NY as the twin towers did. They would be memorial, financial heart and the center of New York in one. They would be a national monument like washington monument or the lincoln memorial. The current plan which contains the footprints of the twintowers look like a grave and does not fit in such a lively and progressive city like New York. The new twintowers would symbolize strength rises like a phoenix!

by: Paul Hunter

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:41:10 +0000

I never got to see those beautyfull towers reach to the sky. Rebuild them. New York needs its twins back.

by: Laurence Frichot

Sat, 31 May 2008 01:20:43 +0000

WE NEED THE TWINS BACK!!!!
im sorry but the ny skyline looks fucked up without them, i may be from Australia, but i DO care for the twin towers, and i am fighting your battle with you!

by: Jake Strode

Fri, 30 May 2008 16:53:23 +0000

Rebuilding the twin towers would show everyone around the world, including terrorists, that the will and determination of this country has been and is still being tested. But, also to show everyone, that we can overcome such adversity and look to the future. Not only for perseverance, but to also honor those citizens and the emergency personnel that lost their lives.

by: Christopher Marson

Fri, 23 May 2008 22:07:37 +0000

The Iconic world trade centres where an inspiration prior to 9/11 as they are today. The feeble excuse of the new design is both an insult and an abomination to all those who lost their lives on that day.
I spent an afternoon in august 2001 just sitting on the Plaza in simple awe of these megalithic monuments, testament to mans enginuity and desire for progression in 1973… 35 years later we seem to of lost direction and a simple desire to do what’s right. Keep the faith friend.

by: Michael O'Flaherty

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:40:16 +0000

The Twin Towers were a truely amazing sight and it’s still not too late to rebuild The Twin Towers. Reguardless of the tragic and horrible 9/11 Terrorist attacks.

by: emma ni loingsigh

Wed, 14 May 2008 16:21:30 +0000

Put the towers back in the air!New york deserves back what the evil took away!
support all the way from ireland…keep up the fight!
Ni ceart go cur le cheile
-there is no stregnth without unity

xxx

by: Áedan Carbó-Calveras

Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:26 +0000

Je croix que pour pouvoir avoire la liberté q’il-faut, c’est nécessaire reconstruir les “Twin Towers “, par-ce-que toute le mond peut voire que rien de rien va faire nous oblier ça; La Libreté.
Et je croix q’il faut les redimensioner: 100×100 metres du base et 500 metres d’hauteur, plus forts, plus sûres et également belles.
TWIN TOWERS FOREVER AND EVER
Áedan

by: Rob Cunningham

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:05:22 +0000

Twin freedom towers is great idea, the original Twin Towers provided a unique skyline.

Rob,
Ireland

by: Juan Sória

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:33:58 +0000

Stronger and taller (why not?)… that’s the spirit! That’s New York!

by: Helen-Marie Willetts

Sun, 04 May 2008 17:07:20 +0000

I never had the opportunity to see the Twin Towers and I’ve never visited New York city but even I feel sad when I see the New York skyline without those majestic buildings reaching for the sky. I really do not think the Freedom Tower is the best way to remember all those who lost their lives that day. Rebuild the towers and make new york city, new york city again! The perfect symbol of freedom and the perfect memorial for 9/11.

by: Luisa Aramino

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:03:15 +0000

by: brandon taylor

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:37:40 +0000

i live in southampton and was in florida 2 days before 9/11 . my mum promised me that in 2003 we would see the twin towers while i was in florida . i went to ny in 2003 but cryed when i saw ground zero . im going when freedom tower is built but i would much rather go and go inside the new twin towers . plz build dem agen . give them another chance

by: mohammad hasheminejad

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:18:22 +0000

Greetings from IRAN…I’m so sorry and I hope us to see the towers once again together…Those two towers are not just buildings…They are also the symbol of people who hate terrorism and everyone who brake the PEACE…so let us rebuild our world together!!

by: Per Arheim

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:47:10 +0000

9/11 was a horrible crime, and restoring at least the architecture of what that event took away is an imperative. Giving Lower Manhattan any other shape than the pre-9/11 one, means NY will remain a metropolis shaped by mass-murderers. Mixing the word “freedom” into it all doesn’t help. It’s intolerable.

A worthy memorial is also of vital importance, for those who lost dear ones and for the people still suffering from these memories all over the USA and the rest of the world.

by: Jed Bradshaw

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:48:15 +0000

The Twin Towers were iconic, they were New York. I was in NY and visited the twin Towers for the first time the week before they were taken away.
Look it’s a no brainer, New York New York needs Twin Towers.
REBUILD.

Jed.

by: Virginia Stewart

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:41:10 +0000

Hello from Toronto. The new plans just don’t do it for me. We need the Twin Towers back. God Bless America.

by: Rolandas Sutkus

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:53:28 +0000

Greetings from Lithuania. Hope that it will be rebuild.

by: Jeyaseelan Jeyaraj

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:50:42 +0000

Twin towers were the symbol of America and specially to New York city and its rebuilding again, may be much taller than earlier!

by: Sanjay Koria

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:03:33 +0000

The only proper tribute to WTC is to build the Towers once again, standing proud as a sign of strength!

by: frans frenay

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:32:12 +0000

by: Blake Hockley

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:26:40 +0000

Yes! They MUST be rebuilt the same as before. Beautiful buildings, NYC looks empty without them. All the best from New Zealand!