The world was robbed of the 21st-century Twin Towers most of us always wanted.
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I wished everyone can help rebuild the twin towers .... all needs to help just not what people they are ... i just wish it would not have happen to the usa and it did ... it is still sad to this day about what happen and my kids will know what happen on step 11 2001 and all others taht does not know needs t know .. it was just wrong for those people to do that and i hope one day they will be stoped and all they do to others
i think they should rebuilt to help all of us heal from what happened ....... i was raised there when i was young and i miss see the twin towers.......
Failure to rebuild the Towers, is to assign ourselves to permanant humiliation and degradation.
The only thing worse than the Attack on 9-11, is our failure to restore our skyline.
How will our Children judge us?
They took the towers from us, from our children and grandchildren. We need to give them back, not put up some stupid-looking building designed by a committee.
Put 'em back!!!
Rebuild it is the only correct thing to do.
New York needs the Twin Towers they must be rebuilt,
rebuilt in the same form, like the Trump plan.
If Athens, Greece was rebuilt sevral times why cant the
Twin Towers be rebuilt. Stop the bureaucracy and rebuild!
I want to say that i'm very ANGRY that someone would do such a thing. I remember exactly where I was 5 years ago. If it was another event, I wouldn't have remembered but this event was so terrifying, so tragic that it is stuck in my mind and heart forever. On september 11th, 2001, i was sitting on the left side of my grade 6 class sitting beside my bestfriend and when i was listening, I started to cry. I was scared out of our own sake in canada. I was terrified and it brings me to tears.
Today is 9/11/06 A couple of day's ago I thought that the best thing to do is rebuild the II's towers Just mightier & stronger. I never thought this way b4 but if they
build the freedom tower it's going to be a hollow victory. These II's were Majestic they went on forever into the sky, they were the cities BIG Protective Brother. We the People of America and it's Allies must Build them again. You cannot replace the mona lisa with a lesser painting.
Build the towers back the way they were, but one story taller and the facade in shimmering white or silver. Let the terrorists know they failed.
We're rebuilding New Orleans. Why not rebuild the towers?
We must rebuild WTC like it was
Rebuild the towers, bigger and higher.
Stand up, America.
Give us back our towers and build them even higher. Show the world that we can and will overcome.
New York City will never be the same without the Twin Towers. To make the biggest statement to the rest of the world would be to rebuild as they were. In Tulsa, my birth city, we have the BOK tower, designed by the same architect who designed the Twin Towers. Please rebuild New York City's skyline.
New York City just isn't New York City without the "twin towers." Please put them back in their original form and make NYC and the rest of the country "whole" again! Let's show the world that despite the tragedy that was unleashed upon us, we have the resolve to unite and withstand any and all transgressions against us. Let us send that message loud and clear!!!
PLEASE REBUILD! I think about this every day of my life!
I believe the towers should be rebuilt to help America heal, but to also remind us of what can happen. I did not personally know anyone who lost their life there, but if I or one of my family members had, I would want them rebuilt as a memorial to them. Also to show terrorists...We will survive. GOD BLESS AMERICA !
TINA ADKINS
Rebuild the towers, anything else signifies defeat.
I think we NEED to rebuild The Towers! If it were up to me, I'd add another 10 floors!!!!
Doing anything other than rebuilding the towers would be a crime.
I know I have three names (like you-know-who, HRC) but, believe me, that's the ONLY thing we have in common! At first I didn't know if rebuilding the Towers was the right thing to do but time has passed and now I do! What a magnificent sight they would be NOW! What a grand statement! How soothing and beautiful! With all the political NONSENSE going on about the site, and all the absurd designs (and I'm a designer), this would just shut everyone up.
It'll be great to bring those towers back up. I've only saw them in my own eyes in Liberty Park New Jersey a couple of times in the past and I could never forget their presence. Forget the freedom tower, bring back the towers...NOW!
Why would you build anything else?????????????????
Re-build the towers the way they were out of RESPECT for all those who gave their lives FOR YOU!!!!!!!
the same towers should be built, not something shiny and glitzy. that's not what this is about. all the fat cats want to get richer, but we the people want our old city back the way it was.
a just fink america wont b america, with out the twin towers
We need to rebuild, giving us strength to move forward.
Keep the world trade centre and the memory of the angels taken away that day alive. They might have took the person from us but they will never take their memory. I'm still in deep saddness for America, the people lost that day and their families. ANGELS LIVE ON FOREVER. I hope i will go to heaven so that i will be able to meet every single one of them.
I can think of no better way to show the world that while we may get knocked down, we will always get back up again.
I say to rebuild it back the way it was!!
make this into a spot that will be useful but will be memorable to everyone who lost a loved one close to there heart in the 9/11 attack on the twin towers