The world was robbed of the 21st-century Twin Towers most of us always wanted.
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It's the right thing to do to show we're not going to cower in fear. Rebuild the Twin Towers.
Let us fight the terrorists on the battlefield, but let us fight them also with our will! There is no better way to strike back at the terrorists and show them that the more they push US, the more we press on!
Building anything other that the Twin Towers is dishonoring to not only those who lost their lives on 9/11, but to our brave military men and women who have sacrificed their lives in defense of our freedom and libery. Rebuild the Towers as they were!!!
Bring back the towers!
What greater tribute than to re-build the towers as they were when so many lost their lives. It would be the ultimate statement that we will not be defeated.
Rebuild the Towers in the Face of the Terrorists.
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!!"
The words of Patrick Henry still hold true today.
God Bless America!
Rob Mazzola
The pride of freedom would insist on the rebuilding of the towers.
To echo a previous signer, BUILD THEM 9'11" TALLER!!
New York City is, among many other things, the capital of comic books, a distinctly American form of entertainment. In the Eisner-winning graphic novel EX MACHINA, writer Brian K. Vaughan has his hero point out that when the White House was burned down during the War of 1812, it wasn't replaced with a memorial structure, it was rebuilt as it was before. There can be no better sign of defiance, or statement that the lives and dreams lost on 9/11 will go on, than to return the Twin Towers to NYC.
Put it back up or the terrorists win..... Build it NOW!!!!!
Best idea - rebuild the same - but one storey taller to let the terrorists know how we REALLY feel!
If anything happens other than the towers being built back very close to the way they were, I will always feel like we lost.
The morning they dropped, I turned to my wife and said the best possible thing we could do is rob the terrorists of the sensationalism of it all and rebuild the towers immediately!
No other structures in the world conjure such a grand presence as the Twin Towers. I reject any design the timid and soft pc bureaucrats want to impose upon us the people. Only the Towers belong at this site, at least 150 stories each this time.
I agree let's rebuild the towers as big if not bigger than they were before and restore the NYC skyline. Anything less is a disgrace that is showing the terrorist that they have won. Let's notify the people in OUR government that it is they who must follow our will, and it is not the other way around.
Build 'em back up the way they were before. That will send a message to those Islamofascist bastards.
There is nothing I can think of that would send so loud and clear a message to those who planned, executed, and celebrated the World Trade Center's destruction. Rebuilding the towers would unequivocally say to them, "You did not succeed."
This should have been the first plan not the last option. Build the towers.
Rebuild the Twin Towers. Americans will not be cowed by Radical Muslims.
Build the towers as they were.
Please rebuild the TWIN Towers!!!
It is the only truly American way we can go. We are not sheep to be sheared and spat upon. Americans need this lesson in being American. Especially our kids. We may get bloodied in the battle but we get back up. This is not about arrogance it is about national character. We need to be reminded that God willing we can do anything.
In the 60's when a lot of this incidious weakness began there was a ray of hope in it's midst. It was the Apollo moon landing. This is our mission.
All Americans, especially the victims' families, deserve to see the towers rebuilt.
Losing a huge powerful landmark like the WTC was devastating for everyone in this nation...even us here on the West Coast. It's as if a huge molar had been extracted and the wound neglected. Islamic fascists are your enemy...don't ever forget that. The Empire State Building was built in just over a year. We landed on the Moon with a balls and a Sliderule. We can and more importantly SHOULD rebuild the World Trade Center as it stood. NYC needs it's core restored.
Build'em exactly like before, only make them the tallest buildings on Earth; taller than Burj Dubai, Taipei 101, Petronas Towers, or Sears Tower.
I wasn't sure what I thought about this cause, but after seeing the old picture of the two towers, I emphatically agree that the two towers would heal mine and all other broken hearts due to 9/11.
Spit in the bastards' faces, both foriegn and domestic terrorists and all haters of Our God Blessed Republic. Build 'em back stronger, bigger, taller. The WTC Towers have become one of our symbols of Individual Freedom and Liberty! "We the People" must continue to show the world that government - in all its forms - is here to serve Our Will. Not the other way around!
take the power back
Twin towers need to be rebuilt
I'm a Navy veteran. I work every day in the rebuilt Corridor 4 of the Pentagon. I think my countrymen and women in New York should have the same opportunity. Rebuild the towers.
It is the only right thing to do!!!!
Now that the loser George Pataki is out, let'sdo it right, listen to Trump. Build the freakin towers back!!
Rebuilding the Twin Towers will only take a brief time, and the staisfaction of doing the right thing will last a long, long time.
Build them again, make them white, and make them taller!
We can build the Twin Towers Better, stronger and faster.
Construction Technology, Steel Fabrication Have greatly improved since the Originals Twin Towers were built. We need to honor those who perished and get it done. NOW!
rebuild! dare we do anything but?
I'm not an absolutist about this, but this design-by-committee solution that we have now is nothing worthy. If something completely awe inspiringly spectacular were to come forward, I would say "Let's Do It," but nothing has. Even with a list of respectable architects, it is ultimately all a hodgepodge of special interests that have cobbled together this plan. Either give one architect control to design something that will stun the world, and if not, then rebuild the towers.