The failure to uphold our heritage by rebuilding the Twin Towers is proof of a malfunctioning government. Neither a Kennedy nor a Reagan would have missed the imperative to rebuild. But officials don’t have to be saddled with the burden of their wrong choices, if they will just get it right now.

An early signer on the TTA petition left the following comment:

“Two characters from the show Babylon 5 said it best…

“Delenn: By the way, there is something I’ve been wondering. Why Babylon 5? If the prior four stations were lost or destroyed, why build another?

“Sinclair: Plain, old human stubbornness, I guess. When something we value is destroyed, we rebuild it. If it’s destroyed again, we rebuild it again. And again, and again, and again — until it stays. That, as our poet Tennyson once said, is the goal: ‘To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.’”

Another supporter once wrote:”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?”

Of course, we don’t know what Pope Benedict did or didn’t say, but coming from the Old World, where they have been rebuilding their war-torn landmarks for centuries, he must have thought it sad that we gave up on rebuilding something as monumental as the Twin Towers.

But, of course, we haven’t. There is no reason why New World should be a synonym for Shallow World. We owe it to the past and the future, to those who built this country, those who died on September 11, 2001, and those who are yet to be born, to turn the lights of the majestic Twin Towers back on.

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