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  1. I would love to see the towers back on New York’s skyline. Maby next to one world trade center. So rebuild them please.

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  2. I love NYC from my childhood! I have watched so many movies, which were made in 80s-90s – and I always loved the Twin Towers in that countless numbers of movies! And one of my biggest dreams was to grow up and go to NYC to see it for real! But, unfortunately, I didn’t make it, because of I was only eleven years old when WTC twins collapsed! And now, when I am 25 years old, I finally made it to go to NYC! But it ain’t “that” city for 100 percent which I loved from my childhood! So! I really want them to be rebuilt! And when I will come back to NYC, I can see this great buildings in the NYC skyline! I don’t know is it possible to do it with Freedom Tower was built, but I hope that some one will work it out and make dream comes true!

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  3. I was born in 2004, after the 9/11, i was 11 years old when i realise the tragedy cause by those culprits who are the ones who want this towers down. For the sake of this, I want those towers back! and in 2021, my dream will be true!

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  4. I’ve never been to NYC but I remember seeing the towers in many movies from my childhood in the 80s/90s, I always wanted to visit them if I was in New York. I was stunned and saddened by 9/11. I would love to see them rebuilt, if not then a twin of freedom tower, the skyline has never looked the same to me, it looks empty without the twins.

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  5. I want America to stand again by building the twin towers back in the same place where they were fallen by the terrorists.

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  6. For many years now, I have known about the Twin Towers. For a good portion of that, I have wished that somehow, I could get to see them, go inside them.

    The new 1WTC and 2WTC are alright, but it isn’t New York without those Towers, standing tall.

    If there is one thing I and Mr Trump can agree on, it’s that the US is admitting defeat by not rebuilding the Twins.

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  7. The Twin Towers at the World Trade Center were some of the most significant and recognized landmarks in the world. They represented way more than just two skyscrapers. They also stranded for the American prosperity and power and American way of living. Those are not something could easily be gone with the buildings. We should bring the buildings back. Along with those, are all of the things above, and stronger.

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  8. In my opinion, the main reason to rebuilt the Twin Towers is purely ethical. The leaders of 9/11 tragedy are now satisfied, as they think that by destroying them they managed to terrorize Americans. But no. Americans should get over 9/11 (not forget it) and demand from their government to rebuilt them, because in this way they wil show terrorists that they even such a major hit, won’t frighten them. The Twin Towers II should look exactly like the previous ones (to show that 9/11 didn’t have impacts of fear on the U.S), be built with stronger materials (in order to resist any attack) and become some floors higher (to show that America is now even stronger than before).
    New York’s skyline will be renewed but at the same moment not changed

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  9. I have been following the events of 9/11 and the rebuilding effort over the years and it pains me to think that these 2 beautiful towers were not even considered when polling showed over 90% of people not just in America but around the world wanted the Twin Towers rebuilt. Despite the new Trade Center being mostly rebuilt already I still hold out hope that one day I may visit New York and my dream that the twins will be there bigger and better than before can be realised. It is what the American people and the people of all the free world deserve to see, to show those scumbag terrorists that we will not let you have the satisfaction of ruining our livelihoods.

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  10. I had loved (and still love) the Twin Towers since the first time I saw them, on a poster, when I was a 5 yo child.

    I always thought that the view from Brooklyn Bridge, with the towers rising up, was the most powerful, evocative, recognizable urban landscape of the world. Also romantic along with Eiffel Tower from Trocadero and the city of Florence from Belvedere. A TRADEMARK.

    I was obviously shocked on 9/11 but equally disappointed when Bloomberg, Pataki, PA and Silverstein Properties decided to not consider at least the “idea of a twin”.

    NY always changes but in this case the decision of changing was wrong as we needed something that would have shown REBIRTH: new TWIN TOWERS.

    PS- Charging people for paying tribute is also disgusting.

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  11. I do not think that the freedom tower is an ugly building but it doesn’t match in the ny skyline for me it looks more it belongs in a city like Toronto. But i absolutely hate the other new buildings in the area like the proposed 2 WTC ugh. For a long time i have wanted to visit the twins but i never got the chance. So i want the towers to be rebuilt tho it’s beginning to get late now… But maybe we should build the Twin Towers 2 in another area in New York??

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  12. I never got to see them, I was only a year old when they fell, I really want to see them whenever I visit New York.

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  13. Hi my English is bad but i went to Manhattan when i was 12 with my family and we we’re watching many famous thing like empire state, times square and 5th avenue but one thing i think is mystery was I saw the 2 enormous pool close to one world trade center and when my father saw that his face was sad because he lost his best friend in the twin towers and I went to memorial 9.11 and he was right the tragedy happened in 9.11. My father was in the twin towers. He said he was in the Fuji bank in south tower and when he felt the crash to north tower hit with something. Fortunately my father felt danger so he succeed to escape. Now one world trade center is build but this not make satisfied for new york families. So twin towers need be rebuild. I love your project. I will love to see the twin towers again.

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  14. i was 13 years old when the Twins got attacked, i saw it on TV, i don’t know what to feel and i can hardly remember the exact word that comes in my mind..but it made me sad..i gathered newspaper clips of the WTC, twintowers and the attack certainly..i was aware of such chaos at that time..and now i just turned 28 and i still feel that emptiness everytime i see USA images w/out the Twins..heartbreaking..many Filipino sympathized to what happened and we feel very sorry to the people who died that day..our condolences and RIP..I’ve watched youtube videos of 9/11 attack..raw videos, videos of..every angle..and watching that plane crash into the twins is really haunting..all the emotions i’ve felt..i don’t know why..but it’s really disti

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  15. I was born on 1997 and i never had a chance to visit the former site. I’m signing in the hope this petition will succeed and the site, especially WTC 1 and 2, restored to the original (or almost) design, externally at least.

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  16. I’m signing in the hope WTC’s original buildings will replace the current ones, but safer and modern inside and the wonderful fountain’ sphere restored. I’m imagining an underground street below the site too. However i lost any hope to see the towers in their place once again but i trust you.

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  17. Twin Towers were simple. but very business-style and great. I wish they were rebuilded. If they will it will be perfect. They will be like Rished From Ashes!
    Never Forget. 15 years pass. We stilll remember and waiting towers to comeback!

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  18. New York without the Twin Towers it’s like Rome without the Colosseum, you have to fix that vacuum. The Freedom tower is an insult, The WTC pre-911 was architecturally perfect.

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  19. It wouldn’t of been the Freedom Tower. It would of been the Freedom TowerS. Because we want BOTH of those towers back the way they were except we’re gonna build them stronger! We want them resisting! We’re just being held back.. Who is holding us back? Politicians. Special Interest Groups. Political Correctness. Get ’em the hell outta your way. I’m British, and I say. Let’s give the Americans a chance to build it back!

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  20. Some immigrants came in New York based on nothing but a postcard they had seen — a photo with that distinctive Manhattan skyline. To me, a French citizen, New York always has been the Twin Towers. This distinctive, tough, violent shape, was indeed how America seemed to us. Powerful. Mighty. But also beautiful.

    All the movies that featured the Twins have written in my head how NYC should look like. It’s now a ghost that haunts even me, a young citizen in France… That’s how amazing the Twin Towers were.

    I’ve always wanted to see them, to breathe New York’s air from the observation deck, at nearly 400 meters from the ground. But now it’s impossible, and not only for New-Yorkers, but also for any citizen in the world. The new tower, somehow, has less than the old Twins.

    Sorry Freedom Tower, but it’s going to be very hard for you to replace such icons.

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  21. In my opinion, twin towers are essential parts of New York consist memories unreplacable by the freedom tower. Without them, New York is not New York. By the way, I really think the new world trade center is ugly.

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  22. The twin towers need to be rebuilt, I’m not a us citizen but I feel proud to sign this petition to get the towers rebuilt. Make new york complete again.

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  23. New york autorities can build twin towers in other location nearby the current wtc towers to avoid any destruction or complications with newly built Towers in grand zero. Thats the only solution. Please accept my solution to once again new york city can shine in the world of architecture and have the globally reknown skyline with new twin towers and current wtc towers together. Thanks so much and god bless america.

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  24. As a Norwegian/American living in Norway who has never been to NYC, I was sorely saddened when the towers fell. And now I’m hopeful that they will be rebuilt once again restoring greatness to lower Manhattan once again. The current skyline is not the same and not impressive whatsoever anymore. The original WTC 1 & 2 were amazing in every way possible and there were two of them! Even though One World is there, we can just build the Twins even higher! And not in glass! Let’s build them back! Yeah!

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  25. I became obsessed with reading about those towers previous year. I am still obsessed with them. I am very sad they are not there. Just came from NYC last week. Was looking at the 1wtc, and boy, the twins are missing. It was interfirring to the eye! I hope one day they will be rebuild. Lets try bring that day.

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  26. Twin towers were such a treasure to the New York and to the USA. I think that they made a mistake for building a new “better” WTC, instead of just rebuilding the old ones. Oh, they we’re so beautiful, and so magnificent!

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  27. The Twin Towers were a symbol of NY architecture, freedom, and economic power. They were amazing in every possible way! I visited them as a kid and would love to see them again. With the rebuild of the Twin Towers based on Donald Trump’s proposal back in 2005, greatness will be restored in Lower Manhattan. New York deserves to have the Twin Towers back, and so does the rest of the world.

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  28. I really don’t think I can add anything that hasn’t been said already, but… bear with me, maybe I can.

    I’m Italian.

    Now, imagine if somebody blew up the Colosseum.

    How would you feel if we neglected to rebuild it?

    Because that’s what we did when the bell tower in Piazza San Marco was destroyed: we rebuilt it brick by brick, and now thousands of people – tourists and Venetians – can admire it in its rightful place every day.

    That’s what we did when WWII destroyed Palermo, Catania, Siracuse and Naples. We rebuilt most of the landmarks, with our bare hands (and some help from our American friends, of course).

    A lifelong dream of mine is to visit NYC.
    And in my dream, when I come, there’s the Towers…

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