The world was robbed of the 21st-century Twin Towers most of us always wanted.
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We should fight to assure that a violent minority does not diminish the life, or skyline, that we've built.
I never got the opportunity to see the Twin Towers in person, but I would love the chance. Rebuilding them proves our country can overcome, and is the only option to rebuild. We have to make the skyline look the same as it did for all those years.
I'm not a New Yorker but as an American I want the twin towers rebuilt! It's a no brainer! Where are the good people of New York and why are you not demanding that the towers be restored for what they stood for? There would be no greater monument or tribute to the souls lost on 9-11 or to our military soldiers lost in battle and to the American people than to give us back the twin towers. Anything other than the twin towers is a victory for terrorism and a defeat to us Americans.
I'm a former NJ resident. I still have some family up there and my oldest daughter now lives back there. I now live in Reston, VA, which is 25 miles outside of Washington, DC. Watched the F-16s fly overhead afterwards to protect us. When I graduated from high school in 1970 I obtained a job working in New York right down the street from where they built the original towers. What a site it was to see them going up in the air!!! Build them as they were! They were beautiful!!!
Build Towers but make the highest on the world to a honor of mans and womens who died on that black day.
The World Trade Center should be rebuilt, just as high and with just as much splendor. When i was 12 i saw a photograph of New Yorks fantastic skyline, and i always said to my mum i wanted to go there and stand on top of the north tower so i could see what being on top of the world feels like. I just wish England could build something half as beautiful as the towers were. God Bless those from 9/11.
Build them bigger and better.
Make them the tallest buildings in the world.
If we are afraid to restore the towers to anything less than their former size and grandeur the terrorists have already beaten us.
Build them bigger!
Build them back, even bigger than before. Make them the tallest buildings in the world to show that Americans can not be stopped, and if you try, we will only come back even stronger than before.
rebuild them.
I really do think as a mark of respect to those 3000 odd hard working folks that went to work on the morning of the 9-11-2001 and never came home the World Trade Centre should be rebuilt the same as that, with a shrine to those that died on that solemn day as a centre piece. THOSE citizens not only americans but from every corner of the globe too and from all religions and faiths and genders deserve that. Rebuild the towers. Donald Trump is right.
Rebuild the towers but make them BIGGER this time.
Rebuild the Towers. It's the right thing to do.
The only way to show that terrorism is useless against America is to rebuild and erase the "physical" destruction of the attacks. Why would terrorism even occur if terrorist both American and foreign knew that their actions would be pointless because we would rebuild anything they thought they could take from us. A memorial is very appropriate but if we want to build these pools as a reminder of the towers then why not just rebuild the towers as a symbol of freedom and also as a tribute.
I stumbled onto this petition quite by accident, but I'm glad that I did. It never occurred to me that one option could be rebuilding WTC either just as it was (though it could never be that, because of those who will never return there) or even better. Upon reading it, I find this to be an excellent idea, because we're standing up to terrorists for our right to live normal lives once more. I say, "GO FOR IT!!!"
It is time!
It is the LEAST we can do honor our fellow citizens and heros.
rebuild the same...only 1 floor taller. AND STRONGER
Ilive in Pakistan But i love all the United States towers Espacially WTC.My sugeesstion is that WTC should raise again but this time very very very Taller that people get amaze to look at them
Rebuild the Twins!!! That's one and only the best plan for New York, for the people and the heart of America. All other plans are worthless. Let the sky rise again!!
Frank - Germany
I rather have the old towers than the crappy one. I dont like the freedom tower becuz whats freedom about it?? >.> They should just remake the old twin towers with some different material such as a memorial chapel for all the ppl who have lost their lives.
The Twin Towers should be rebuilt as they were originally, in all their glory. Anything less would be a victory for the enemy and a black mark on our great nation. We can not let them win, either by taking away great landmarks, our personal freedoms, or by altering our way of life in any way, shape, or form.
Build two towers not one. Build both of them at 1,776 feet. One tower is just not the same as two.
great Idea, rebuild them both exactly the same they were.
I agree.
Absolutely!
The Freedom Tower is nothing more than a monument honoring Osama bin Laden and the terrorists. Rebuild the Twin Towers to honor the people killed that day.
I never saw the Twin Towers, but they look beautiful in photographs and I hope to be able to visit the top some day.
My parents went to the Twin Towers before I was born, and I would like to experience that as well.
So much gone! I feel that the best way to commemorate the World Trade Center complex and the thousands of lives lost is to rebuild the site exactly as it was, only with a monument which honors those who died in the attacks. This would send a message that nothing has changed. It would say that, no matter what, we won't waver and cannot be shaken. It will also allow future generations to see the towers as they once were. My biggest regret is that I never got to see them in person.
I believe that rebuilding the Twin Towers excactly as they were on 9-10-2001, would be the best way to tell whoever did this,SCREW YOU. To preserve the memory of those who gave their lives simply going to work, the Towers should be rebuilt and the exact opposite footprints. I also think we should put a huge antenna on top that in the right light might look like a huge middle finger. Anything else would be foolish. It's the only way to heal.
The same as the originals, only TALLER!
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