Some last designs were scrapped because it had been deemed unsafe by the New York City Police Department. 

While this design is better than the last design it is still not what people want.

Most Americans want the Twin Towers rebuilt.

We want to show the terrorists that they cannot alter our skyline.

While the new design looks better the basic design of the surrounding project,  the surrounding slant roof buildings, still look odd and out of place in New York City. 

As it is viewed from Brooklyn these odd looking buildings will partially block the view of the Freedom Tower.

Why change the basic design of the magnificent Twin Towers when they can be rebuilt better than they were?

Rebuild them stronger, better, and one floor higher!

This will RESTORE the New York skyline to it's previous beauty.

It will also show the terrorists that they cannot alter our country for long.

I strongly believe that we MUST rebuild the Twin Towers.

It is the RIGHT thing to do that will  honor the thousands of people killed, and to send a message to the world that we will NOT be defeated.

The Freedom Tower Center design is a mess.

The odd looking trapezoid roof buildings look out of place and will block the view of the tower.

This is not the appropriate structure to fill in the hole in the ground,  the hole in the sky, or the hole in our hearts.
 

What will the public be standing next to? 

A sheer face of a solid brick of concrete?

While it might be "safer", it will look awful.

It will look like a huge prison wall.

What's the attraction to a blank wall?
 
 

This is the type of beautiful image that may never be seen again if the towers are not rebuilt.

The Twin Towers had a distinct symmetrical balance.

The Freedom Tower looks like a cold, imposing monolith.

It's odd side angles don't fit the symmetry of the New York skyline.  Ground Zero should not be a multi angle "art project".

In polls taken in New York City and across the country almost 70% of the people asked said they would rather see the towers rebuilt that the current Freedom Tower design.

AOL Poll, May 20, 2005

The new Twin Towers II would incorporate the footprint of the original towers marked by empty facades where the buildings once stood. 

In the center of them there would be the new
World Trade Center memorial and museum. 

The new twin towers would be moved west to preserve the sacred ground.

This is a BRILLIANT design which honors the past and and gives hope to the future.

You could see the Twin Towers from all over the New York area.  All you had to do was to look up to the sky and see the Twin Towers to know where you were in the NY/NJ area.

That will prove that the terrorists won by permanently altering our skyline.  We want the Twin Towers back.

When the new Twin Towers II are built it will help heal the wounds of 9/11.

• The WTC site was designed specifically for the Twin Towers. It should remain that way.

• The skin, core, and flooring could be completed within two years, fully, and truly restoring the skyline. 

• The Twin Towers were a national monument, just like the White House, the Capitol, the Statue of Liberty and many other unique places in the United States. 

• In virtually every public opinion poll, either in print or on the Internet, the public has shown support for rebuilding the Twin Towers by a significant majority. 

• Rebuilding the Twin Towers will heal the psychological wounds of many who were touched by the September 11 attacks. 

• The Twin Towers will reclaim over 10,000,000 square feet of column free office space. 

• The Twin Towers will restore revenues from tourism; in fact revenues would increase. 

• The site plan offers a substantial, powerful, and appropriate memorial covering 6 acres, 17 when the individual floors of the 9/11 Memorial Museum are counted. The proposed memorial complex not only respects the original Tower footprints, but incorporates them into the memorial in substantive ways. 

• The shopping complex one level below grade, along with street level retail, will create many jobs, stimulate the economy, and result in substantial sales tax revenue.

• Rebuilding the Twin Towers are what the majority of Americans want.

I also suggest you contact WTC leaseholder Larry Silverstein,
N.Y. Governor Eliot Spitzer, and New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg to make your feelings known.

• Larry Silverstein, Leaseholder of World Trade Center, CEO, Silverstein Properties, 530 Fifth Avenue 18th Fl., New York, NY 10036; Phone: 212-490-0666.

• N.Y. Governor Eliot Spitzer, State Capitol Building, Albany, NY 12224. Phone: 518-474-8390.

• Mayor Michael Bloomberg, City Hall, New York, NY 10007; Phone: 212-788-3000                       Fax: 212-788-8123; Fax: 212-788-2460; E-Mail: http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html 

• John Schiumo, Talk host, New York 1: john.schiumo@ny1news.com

• Richard Schwartz, New York Daily News: rschwartz@edit.nydailynews.com 

• Michael Goodwin, New York Daily News: mgoodwin@edit.nydailynews.com 

• Michael Dally, New York Daily News: mdaly@edit.nydailynews.com 

• John Tourney, The New York Times: tierney@nytimes.com 

• Bob Herbert: The New York Times: bobherb@nytimes.com 

• Letters, New York Post: letters@nypost.com

• Letters, New York Daily News: voicers@edit.nydailynews.com

• Letters, The New York Times: letters@nytimes.com

• Letters, New York Sun: editor@nysun.com

• New York 1: davidson.goldin@ny1news.com

The USS New York

The USS New York was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center .

It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.

Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite , LA to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept. 9, 2003 , " those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence," recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. "It was a spiritual moment for everybody there."

Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the "hair on my neck stood up." "It had a big meaning to it for all of us," he said. "They knocked us down. They can't keep us down. We're going to be back."

The ship's motto?   "Never Forget"

By AMY WESTFELDT, Associated Press Writer 
September 28, 2005

NEW YORK - Bowing to pressure from furious Sept. 11 families, Gov. George Pataki on Wednesday removed a proposed freedom museum from the space reserved for it at ground zero, saying the project had aroused "too much opposition, too much controversy." 

He left open the possibility that a new spot at the former World Trade Center site could be found for the International Freedom Center, but officials for the proposed museum said they considered the project dead.

The decision followed months of acrimony over the International Freedom Center, with Sept. 11 families and politicians saying that the museum would overshadow and take space from a separate memorial devoted to the 2,749 World Trade Center dead and would dishonor them by fostering debate about the attacks and other world events.

"Freedom should unify us. This center has not," Pataki said. "Today there remains too much opposition, too much controversy over the programming of the IFC.... We must move forward with our first priority, the creation of an inspiring memorial to pay tribute to our lost loved ones and tell their stories to the world."

Pataki said the Freedom Center cannot be part of a cultural building located near the proposed trade center memorial. But he left open the possibility that the center could find a home elsewhere on the 16-acre site.

Pataki said he would direct the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. — the agency he created to rebuild the site — to explore other locations for the center.

Freedom Center officials, however, said in a statement that they do not believe there is a viable alternative location at the trade center site.

"We consider our work, therefore, to have been brought to an end," the museum said. "We are deeply disappointed that the will could not be found to continue the development of the International Freedom Center at this hallowed site."

A campaign by some Sept. 11 families to oust the museum from space reserved for it at ground zero had grown in recent months to include four police and fire unions, an online petition with more than 40,000 signatures, and several politicians including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former  Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

"Goodbye and good riddance," said Rep. Vito Fossella one of three congressmen who had threatened hearings on federal funding if the museum stayed where it was. "The IFC will not stand on the hallowed grounds of the World Trade Center site."

In addition to the terrorist attacks, the Freedom Center planned exhibits on such topics as Abraham Lincoln, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the fall of the Berlin Wall, the civil rights movement, the Declaration of Independence and the South African constitution.

The museum would also include a section on the world's response to Sept. 11 and a film that links the victims' backgrounds to periods in history.

Opponents charged the museum could include inappropriate exhibits that would distract attention from the proposed memorial and could foster anti-American debate about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Some families have opposed the museum as much for its location as its content; they say it would sit in a prominent part of ground zero that would obscure the memorial museum.

Although most families who have expressed opinions are against the Freedom Center, a few have supported it, including the proposed museum's vice chairman, Paula Grant Berry, whose husband died at the trade center.

Rebuilders are planning a separate, underground Sept. 11 memorial museum. On the rest of the 16-acre site, they are planning five office towers, a performing arts complex and a transit hub.

We are very pleased to announce that Governor Pataki has announced the removal of the International Freedom Center (IFC) from Ground Zero. See http://www.ifcwtc.org/

Every since June 8, 2005 when Debra Bulingame's op-ed, The Great Ground Zero Heist, appeared in the Wall Street Journal, we have fought together for the preservation of the dignity of Ground Zero. With your help, we have achieved a major victory toward that goal. 

We will continue to monitor the plans for Ground Zero to ensure that a fitting and proper memorial is built; one that is respectful of the victims murdered that day, their families, the first responders, and the American people.

A press release on the removal of the IFC from the 15 family member groups is expected in the next 24 hours and we will post it at www.takebackthememorial.org as soon as it becomes available.

Thank you again for your support, prayers, and dedication. We simply could not have done this without you.

TakeBackTheMemorial.org
 

The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center may never be rebuilt.  I'm deeply saddened by this thought, but I am not giving up hope. While great people like those at Team Twin Towers carry on the fight to rebuild the Towers, it seems that nothing will stop those who want the Freedom Tower built. Former N.Y. Governor George Pataki, and N.Y. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, never supported the rebuilding plan and let us all down.  New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton have been absolutely despicable in this matter by letting down every American.  This is the image that they have left us with.

Don't any of these people remember, or even care what happened on September 11, 2001?
Maybe they need to see the pictures of the terror again, and again, and again.
Maybe, just maybe, they should stop blaming America for what happened on 9/11.

But, in my opinion, the failure of the rebuilding of the Twin Towers rests largely with developer
Larry Silverstein. 

Larry Silverstein held most of the legal rights to rebuild the tower. He was awarded 5 billion dollars in insurance money for the buildings he owned.  Billions more have been allocated by Congress in tax exempt "Liberty Bonds" meaning that we the people had no say in this matter.

On April 27, 2006 the ground was broken on the new Freedom Tower.

They have been continually changing the design so who knows what will ultimately be built there.

The progress of the Freedom Center can be seen HERE: http://www.projectrebirth.org

But one thing seems to be a strong possibility now, the Twin Towers, as they were, or in a new improved design may never be be built there.

I for one, hate to admit defeat but I am a realist, and things are not looking good for the Twin Towers plan.

I still think we need to keep the pressure on to have the Twin Towers rebuilt.

Let me also make this perfectly clear, while I'm saddened with the way things have gone, truly, I'm mad as hell about it.  I'm much more angry at this point than sad. 
But I'm trying to keep this page civil.

Even though it seems as though a majority of Americans wanted the Twin Towers to be rebuilt, there is a negative undercurrent running through the idea.

I tried to avoid becoming political about this subject because I thought were were all Americans and loved our country, but sadly this is not the case.

Conspiracy theories are all around, nutjobs like Rosie O'Dingbat, and Charlie "I did a little too much cocaine" Sheen put forth the notion that our own government, and specifically President George W. Bush, blew up the towers in some evil plan to make money or to start a war or some other such nonsense.

But these idiots, who probably never finished high school, don't know a thing about history.

Rosie is hanging upside down because she tells us she's depressed, and Charlie Sheen has had more cocaine overdoses than Rolling Stone Keith Richards.  No offense Keith, at least your honest about your life!

"The elevated section of highway that carries traffic from the east end of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was leveled on April 29 2007.  Heat from the tanker explosion on the westbound 580 melted the upper roadway of the MacArthur Maze. The fire was intense enough to cause the tanker truck to basically MELT AWAY, according to crews on the scene."

 Click Here to play the video

There is going to be a revamped internet movie out on this very subject out in theaters very soon.
The movie, who's title I will not mention, gets about a dozen facts wrong in the first 5 minutes.

This kind of Anti Americanism contributes to the idea that there is no sense in rebuilding the Twin Towers as they were.

Just to set the record straight Popular Mechanics has investigated in depth that there were NO planned explosives, or massive conspiracy to "blow up" the towers as put forth by these nuts.

It's sad to say that in some polls many of those asked about this now actually believe the garbage that our U.S. Government blew up the Twin Towers and planned 9/11.

All I can say is what an ignorant time we live in when the members of one of the mainstream political parties call our President a modern day Hitler.  Besides being a HUGE insult to those millions who were murdered by Hitler, this comparison is preposterous.

You can agree with the President on some things as I do, and disagree with him on others, as I do, but there is a VERY large percentage of the population who now have the very real disease of
"Bush Derangement Syndrome".  This disease is very real and clouds the thinking of many Americans.

Of course, this is propagated by about 80% of the media, so it's almost no wonder while the mindless lemmings believe this notion.

There are literally hundreds of celebrities and politicians who openly, and gleefully hate the President, and put forth the crazy notion that he orchestrated the 9/11 attacks.

How is it that these people make statements almost identical to those in Al Queda and those who want to kill us?  Who's side are these people on?  And who really gives a crap about what Sean Penn thinks about this anyway?

In one breath they tell us President Bush masterminded the most spectacular terrorist attack in history, and then people like Donald Trump himself labels President Bush "the dumbest man to ever hold the Presidency". 

This from a man who makes a living by sucking quarters out of widows purses in a non stop 24 hour orgy of slot machines in Atlantic City.  His thoughts for rebuilding the Towers is a good one, but I'm not impressed with him as a man.

Well which is it people?  Is Bush the Anti-Christ or the goofy guy on the cover of Mad Magazine?
For consistencies sake you CAN'T have it both ways!

I've got more to say on this and I will expand upon my thoughts soon.

I wish I could let you people blog on this site but I got so much hate mail I had to take the guestbook down because some "real patriots" decided it was just another place to take a dump on America.

That's not to say that all the posts were bad and I would say at least 90% of the people who write to me, are in full support of rebuilding the Twin Towers, and supporting America.