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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.
Metro New Yorkers
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Colm MacNiallais
The Twin Towers were my favorite and most beloved buildings in this city and my heart was broken on 9/11, for the towers and for those who lost their lives. I want these towers to be rebuilt just as they were, perhaps with modifications to prevent collapse should the terrorists strike again. Rebuild the Twin Towers NOW!
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Chaim Berger
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I believe the twin towers need to be rebuilt, but not just, only higher and more pretty. and thats what i’m waiting to show my children, who already dont remember the new york skyline of before 9/11.
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ronni reiburn
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Kamran Shaukat
I do New York city photography and had photographed the Twins Towers as much as anybody else in the world hence my feelings for them. I very strongly feel by building them exactly the way they were would let us reclaim our city and heal wounds of the 9/11. The Towers were the gateway to USA for people coming from far and wide. They annouced their arrival to the New World!
Rising majestically into the skies they defined not just a city but a whole country! Let’s bring them back.
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Chris Seamans
Not rebuilding the Towers shouldn’t even be an option.
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Laurel Rockefeller
Rebuilding the Twin Towers is very important to both the cultural and financial prosperity of our great city.
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Richard Rodriguez
I like the idea of the same or very simlar design and taller.
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Diane Arnemann
I thoroughly support the re-building of the twin towers. They were a source of American pride and should be rebuilt. I watched them errected from my kitchen window and I watched them burn for days. The Manhattan skyline is just “sad” to look at now. Building anything less is an insult to those who died there. I’m sure all New Yorkers feel the same.
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James Wacker
Anything else will be a tombstone.
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Jack Keefe
I can’t think of any better memorial to the victims and families all the emergancy workers……all affected by that day, than to drive down the west side highway and see those buildings again. you can’t bring the victims back, but in my opinion you could in some way by seeing those buildings, the best in the city, country and possibly the world. Not even the petronas towers in malaysia are as breath taking (just my opinon). I wrote at the site last year on the wall BRING THE TOWERS BACK!!!!!!!!!
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sean quinn
I think we should re-build the towers the way they were…only better. We should do this not only to make New York City New York City again, but to show ourselves AND the rest of the world..and especially the ones who did that terrible murderous act on September 11th, 2001 that we are proud and resilient! Its the way it outta be.
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Bill Holls
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build them exactly the way they were but 9 and 11 floors higher respectively, and maybe with anti-aircraft missile capabilities
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Cindy Reid
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Listen to the people’s desires. Rebuild as they were. Show the world we’re still standing. We FEAR NO ONE!!!
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Eric Jensen
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I think it is an absolute shame that we’re even having this discussion. If it were the White House that were destroyed, we wouldn’t be building a pink house. I miss those towers.
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Vincent Vrenna
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I like Donald Trump’s idea. Put them back where they were, only one story taller.
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Arman Dutta
I am a a New Yorker, my cousin is a Marine who has been to Iraq twice and my Uncle is a Fireman who was at 9/11 even though he is a Newark Fireman. This “Freedom Tower” is the stupidest idea I have ever seen. We need The Twin Towers put back the way they were. Nothing will show the terrorists how strong we our more then putting them back up Bigger then before. We need our two beloved Twin Towers back not this single Tower that looks like it was designed by the archaeologically retarded.
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Betty Lauriano
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Amy Fernandez
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John Horan
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Rebuilding without the Twin Towers is defeatist. Whatever we build will be a target for the enemy no matter what, so just do it. I had never been to the observation deck or Windows on The World, but would love to one day.
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michael mcdonnell
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Stuart Raffo
I firmly believe that if 9/11 had happened anywhere else in the world, the Twin Towers would have been rebuilt by now. I cannot understand the logic of building one tall tower as opposed to replacing the two that were there before. PLEASE REBUILD THE TWIN TOWERS.
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John Latella
They changed the plans a couple of times already, what’s one more? 6 years later, and still not 1 above ground floor built yet. We can’t bring those lost on that day back, but we could rebuild the twin towers, bigger, stronger, maybe black like the Sears tower (both in defiance and remembrence). The Pentagon was rebuilt, why not WTC?
WE NEED SOME HIGH PROFILE, INFLUENTIAL HELP….MAYBE DONALD TRUMP WOULD RE-INTRODUCE HIS IDEA?
PLEASE GET BACK INVOLVED MR TRUMP!!!!
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Bernard Zsikla
The Romans knew how to respond when attacked or something was destroyed, they would build it again, but stonger and bigger. They never showed weakness, they knew what it would say to their enemies. Is there any real question what should be built again?
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CHRISTIAN GUTIERREZ
I THINK THEY SHOULD REBUILD THE TOWERS BECAUSE THE 2 TOWERS SHOWED A SYMBOL OF UNITY,FREEDOM, ACCOMPLISHMENT,INTEGRITY OF THIS GREAT CITY OF N.Y.C AN ECONOMIC STRENGTH OF A UNITED NATIONS OF MILLIONS OF ETHNIC GROUPS,LANGUAGES,RACES,CULTURES,COUNTRIES UNITED AS ONE. AND AIN’T NO ONE GOING TO STEAL OUR FREEDOM THAT WE THE PEOPLE HAVE STRUGGLED TO ACQUIRE FOR MANY YEARS. WE NEED TO SHOW OUR STRENGTH AN DETERMINATION THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE PUT DOWN BY WHAT WE WENT THRU PLUS WE’VE BEEN THRU WORSE.
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Malka Tischler
I agree the Twin Towers should be rebuilt as before, EXCEPT with a safe, fireproof structure, which may require a more traditional building skeleton; ie, a steel skeleton supporting the entire building weight, and masonry to provide fire protection. This may require shorter towers. That would be OK - ie, if they were “only” 80 or 90 stories, they would still soar above everything around them and appear the same as the original towers. The planned Freedom Tower is a monstrosity.
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Joe Piotrowski
To rebuild the Twin Towers would be the best memorial to those who lost their lives and to the many thousands who still suffer the effects of that horrible, horrible day.
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The skyline’s so empty now. The design is better as well. Everyone I talk to thinks they should go back up!
Yes. This is exactly what I thought everyone would do without debate.
Think of the result of not rebuilding:
Every time we look at a picture of New York, we will think “Pre 9/11″ vs “Post 9/11″. If we do not restore the skyline we in effect create a perpetual advertisement for the success of the terrorist attack. A propaganda piece that will last forever.
For us New Yorkers who navigated by the Towers the restoration will produce stronger healing.
Of course we will not forget and cannot forget but the new towers cannot and should not be identical. The upgrade would be like a well healed wound, the pain of the negative space of the towers would be gone, with the small difference remaining as a scar of the painful event we have recovered from, but never can completely erase.
It does not encourage terrorists, to the contrary. (We didn’t leave the hole in the Pentagon did we?) Instead it proves that terrorist cannot destroy America’s iconic structures because unlike the Pyramids they are part of a living society, the vacuum that destroying these buildings created naturally will result in the same building raising again. Ultimately then the terrorists will not have knocked down the Towers they only will have accelerated their upgrade.
Graham Poor
Born and raised in Manhattan now living in Mountain View CA.
The “Freedom Tower” plan is a disgrace. Nobody likes it, and nobody wants it. What Americans want (and with very good reason!) is for the Twin Towers to be rebuilt, better than ever. It would send a far better message than the current plan, that’s for certain!
I Love the Twin Towers! The WTC site is nothing without them. Get everyone to do the Twin Towers 2 design by ken gardner im sure Larry silverstein would go for it! But yes Were America and we will stand tall for what we believe in which is bigger safer stronger Twin Towers!
The World Trade Center meant and still means a lot to me, but i would have loved to get a chance to go shopping in there and also going to the observation deck and and also going to windows on the world and eating a nice quality meal and it looked awesome in ny skyline and ground zero and it meant world trade and peace and they were a nice simple design and they brought a lot of business in nyc
WTC Rebuild!!!!
Jose Parejo Gainesville Fl
The Twin Towers meant and still mean alot to me. It would be irresponsible not to rebuild them. I’d even go for a job in them if they put them back.
The twin towers should be rebuilt as they were originally. It represents freedom… also shows the world that we are strong…and we comeback stronger than ever.
Build back the twin towers ! Not, 110 floors but 220 floors and 2,001 feet tall. NOW WITH THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION AND THE NAU.
Show some balls and rebuild the Towers. BOTH OF THEM. Only taller!
BRING BACK THE TOWERS
new york needs the towers, for the coming generations who never got to see the city skyline with them, they stood for the greatest city on earth!!!
While they will never be the same I need something to show my children, something that shows nothing good comes from backing down. These buildings while they resided in NY belonged to AMERICA and they should stand tall again.
The Freedom Tower does no justice to the victims of 9/11. It only points out the pervasive weakness in America. I was only a child when 9/11 happened, but I remember taking pride in those buildings. They exuded power and warmth. The Freedom Tower leaves me cold. Rebuild the Twin Towers so that we can show our strength again.
Rebuild the towers. There is no other option.
I am a born and raised New Yorker and only recently moved to New Jersey. I’ll never forget how I marveled at the WTC when I was younger and how impressive the site was to me. I can’t imagine having future generations missing out on this experience and I honestly think we should strengthen the experience. Let’s make the towers taller and stronger! I say make the towers 2001 feet tall for the year they encountered their biggest challenge that they still overcame. It would show America’s resolve.
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9/11 took away the Twin Towers from not only the entire world, but to us New Yorkers. It isnt the same anymore without them. They should be rebuilt as a sign that America takes back what people try to take from them.
I am a native NYer and i was there at 911 and I will never forget the sight of thousands of NYers walking up park ave looking stunned and dazed, a real 3rd world sight we are Americans and NYers and we are tough, and gritty, we need to rebuild the towers and not cower we need to send a message loud and clear that we are not afraid but rather we are one in our resistance to tyranny and fear, we are all one city and nation unafraid and undaunted as we face an islamic tyranny not one of choice
I am doing a report on the twin towers and what had happened to them and me and my classmates would like the twin towers to be rebuilt. Without the twin towers this world is missing a peice of history. So if we can rebuild it, it would be a miracle.
TTA Note: The Hayleys of this world need to see that miracles do happen — and one day that is just what rebuilt Twin Towers will proclaim.
We truly need to rebuild the twin towers. We need to rebuild now for the sake on our beloved New York and this country. We can’t let a group of people dictate what should or should not be put there. We have to look at the need of this city and country. It is disgraceful that nothing is built at the site of our beloved towers.