The world was robbed of the 21st-century Twin Towers most of us always wanted.
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Return it to the way it was.
Restore the pride. Rebuild the original with pride.
We must pray to become worthy of their sacrifice. We must remember them. We must avenge their murders through total, complete, utter VICTORY !
But, there can be no victory if there is no historical context, no cultural memory of why we are fighting Islamofascists, and without victory there can be no peace.
One mark of the totalitarian psyche is the need to air-brush historical contexts. We must not allow that to happen to 9/11/2001 and The Twin Towers.
The message we send needs to be clear: We are not afraid. When you deny the terrorists terror, than the only thing they have is their radical ideolodgy.
I'd like to see 2 towers taller and grander than before, with a memorial of course.
The most fitting tribute and memorial is to re-build
Rebuild...BIGGER and BETTER.
We must do this.
Dear True American,
Please add my name in your group because I want to rebuild my Twin Towers of NY,NY,U.S.A.When our house is destroyed,we rebuild it in exactly same way.Our WTC Complex is our home,strength,sentiments and true American soul lives here.This is our duty to rebuild our buildings again. Twin towers represent U.S.A.I am far away but I remember my buildings everyday.That's enough to show my feeling if you believe.I want Xerox copy of original WTC Complex.I will rebuild them-Arvind.
One foot highter!
It's been too long, time to rebuild.
Let's roll!
We need to build new towers taller than any other structure in the world.
We need to send the world a message we not be intimidated by those that would destroy our freedom and way of life.
Nothing less!
Its the right thing, and it should be done
The Twin Towers were an American symbol. Rebuilding them will fill in the hole 9/11 left. Rebuilding them will show America’s strength and looked towards the future. The Freedom towers is a step back. It dwells on 9/11 as it cowers down from the mighty Twin Towers.
I wrote a little piece on the subject, but it's too long to fit here, so I will get it in a link:
m2bastards.free.fr/gardnerbelton.doc
The twin towers need no improvement;just our vigilance!
We will never know the real reason for the attacks.No matter how much some one thinks they know.We however not just as Americans, but as people must stop the hate.What does violence solve?You can win a war but what does it mean? How do you fight an idea?How do you fight a war when the enemy is an opinion based on what we dont know? The war is in ourselves.Someone has to be the better person and initiate it.Starting with building the towers the way they were, and rebuild ourselves on both sides.
We are Americans, the strongest in the world. We get knocked down, we get back up. The Towers were American, they got knocked down, why are we debating on putting them back up???? There should be no question about it. We need to show terrorist that we will stand again along with OUR Towers!!!!!!!!
I'm sorry for the families and not a day goes by that I don't think about the ones who lost their lives that horrible day. I never thought I would live long enough to see an attack on U.S. soil, but I was so wrong. My American flag is proudly displayed every single day of the year.
Dont let the terrorists win! Show them that American can rebuild, and we are not afraid of them or their acts of cowardness! Rebuild the towers, and they will come!
Bring Our Country back to the way it was along with the Great City of New York, for our children and Grandchildren to come. Lets all unite under the Twin Towers.
To not rebuild the towers would be a form of surrender and a capitulation to evil.
THERE WOULD BE NOTHING MORE BEAUTIFUL TO SEE THESE TOWERS BUILT ....IT WILL SHOW THAT NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO WE ARE STILL STANDING WITH OUR HEADS HIGH
Put em back the way they were!
Please rebuild the Twin Towers, I miss them so much. I feel that nothing would be more effective as a memorial that a huge memorial in the lobby of both the towers. By making a small, low tone, memorial we are showing weakness in the eyes of the terrorists. I wish so much that more people felt like I do, again, please rebuild the twin towers, its what is right.
We must do whatever is needed to make sure that the World Trade Center rises once again.
I remembered thinking in September 2001, where would we be in September 2006, would the pain be less? Would we have already rebuilt? and here it has come and gone, 5 years, and it still feels as it was yesterday. Anything but a new World Trade Center would be admitting defeat.
No greater homage or tribute can be paid to our fellow fallen americans, than the rebuilding and resurection of what the twin towers stood for. Not only for America,but for all those who called it home and for all the families who called it our bread, the towers must go up to show the world and the families of 911, that here again stands a symbol, a symbol of the spirit of America, a symbol which will prove again that America too as well as its citizens will not stay down in the face of adversit
Rebuild the towers as they were.
my father taught me that when knocked down, you stand up and confront your aggressor. Let's confront our aggressor by rebuilding the twin towers...
Let's not let AMERICA down!!!
Healing and closure begin when we fill the void in our skyline and our hearts with the restoration of one of the great symbols of this country, and memorialize and honor all who gave their lives on that fateful day.
twin towers should be rebuilt as the same or better, america deserves only the very best for the new york skyline. anything less is a mockery to 9-11 & those that perished. may god bless america!!