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I live in NY all my life, as a kid i loved seeing the towers, especially since my fatehr was very involved in the building of them. You have my full support.
Anytime I would get on the NJ Turnpike, or go over the Raritan bridge, I would always strain to find the towers on the horizon. My loss was small compared to others, Astrid Sohan the girl that gave me my first kiss.
Please don't let terrorists decide our skyline for us!
Let the message go forth from this
mornings first light,we love our
country and for it's Towers we'll
fight!
God Bless America!
As a civil engineer, I believe that we must be bold and rebuild NYC to its former grandeur.
Rebuild the Towers.Put them back up as they were. To do anything else shows the world that they can come to our country, steal our planes and destroy anything they like, and we will take it. Put back the Twin Towers as they were. We are Americans, and no one will ever take that from us. Show the world that we stand tall and proud.
Its time to make the skyline look correct again. The day the towers fell, a part of my life was changed forever. I know it won't change that, but, it will make things look more like they should
Anything other than the twin towers is a nothing more than a reminder of what was once there and is no longer. Rebuilding the towers is meant to show that we will stand up after we get knocked down - that in itself is a memorial all on it's own.
As we united on that awful day, we must unite to remove all obstacles that stand in objection to putting those marvelous structures back where they stood.
Rebuild the towers as they were but make them one story taller.
Rebuild, restore the "World".
the towers ought to be rebuilt
Put everything back the way it was.
The greatest memorial and the greatest show of the American spirit would be to construct the twin towers back to look just like the original symbol of this great city and country.
Rebuild the towers... Anything less would be cowardice and serve as a symbol of shame!
I hope you succeed!
I worked in WTC 1 - 22nd floor 1985 & 1986. The best way to honor the lost people and defeat the enemy is to build it to look the same, plus 1 floor higher.
THIS MUST BE DONE!!!!!!!!! FOR NEW YORK, FOR THE USA, FOR MAN KIND, for thoes that where murdered!!!!!!! on 911...!
DEFINITELY REBUILD THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ESPECIALLY THE TWIN TOWERS!!!!!!!!!!
Rebuild the towers with strength, dignity and hope for all to see.
Rebuild the skyline and allow the strength of all those in the US to be broadcasted throughout New YORK.
If anything besides the Twin Towers gets built, it will just be a sad reminder of what used to be there. Please bring back the skyline we only know of and love. I miss the Twin Towers.
To allow the towers not to be rebuilt shows that our will is weak, and that we can be defeated at home! The towers should be rebuilt, just the same as they were, as an outward sign of our determination to overcome and defeat terrorists.
There is a hole in my sky--please repair it...not re-design it!