I believe that rebuilding the twin towers would help restore hope in our nation and would bring back the majesty of the New York City skyline. As a lifelong resident of the tristate area, those two buildings were not just skyscrapers. They were icons of who we are as a nation and a symbol of what it means to be a New Yorker and New Jersian. We are a tough and resilient people and for that symbol to not be returned to our great city is an absolute crime. Rebuild the towers alongside the Freedom Tower and show the world we haven’t given in and given up.
Paul D
6/14/2012
The Twin Towers were attacked because they symbolized the American way of life. They were the targets and not rebuilding them will leave future generations cheated and give the terrorists the last laugh. The current plan to “rebuild” the WTC accommodates the terrorists plan, and is not very popular among the people at all. I say if we are paying for this site in toll hikes we should have a say! And I think very clearly the Twin Towers would rise again. My family and I were greatly affected by 9/11, and living just minutes away from the city made it even more personal, it was our home. So please Rebuild The Twin Towers!
Matthew Lafontaine
*6/10/2012
The best memorial would be an exact replica of the buildings but much stronger to withstand any attack if the effin terrorists ever try that again!
Jorge Sacasari
*6/7/2012
I wish all those brave families good luck and Rest In Peace all those brave first responders who died, I hope all the 3000 lives rest in peace.
Michael Andrejisk
*5/3/2012
I don’t remember seeing the World Trade Center. I was too young and wouldn’t understand it. My father was in the building working there multiple times. He was just over a mile from the trade center when they collapsed. He even took photos of it. I think that they should do this because it was what represented new york during the late 20th century. People around the world dream of seeing them. It would take us back to before all this had happened making you smile everytime you go into the city. Welcome to the top of the world. It just looks like it’s missing everytime you see the view from the top of rockefeller looking beyond the empire state building. Now that they have a 3 sided building with 2 others accompanying it just doesn’t look right.
Sarah Nelson
4/12/2012
James Thurlow
3/19/2012
TTA Note: The following comment is similar to what we have been asked so often by idealistic, young people. We may never understand what motivated a few officials and civic leaders to sell our country short with a recovery that doesn’t measure up in any way to what we lost — when restoring the cherished skyline, in fact instead of fiction, would have inspired the world. Now, after spending seven years working to get to the bottom of it, we don’t know “why” — but what we know for sure is “who”, “what”, “how”, and “why not”. It is a convincing case of wrongdoing that will be presented on the site asap.
I was not old enough to see the towers, they were destroyed when i was in kindergarden. I always wondered what happened to the two huge towers in lower manhattan. Since then i have always seen pictures and videos of what it used to be like in NYC. There was this undeniable vibe to NYC that i could not get over. From what ive seen and heard, manhattan was a different world before 9/11. It’s hard to describe and this may sound crazy but it was like new york was like a magical place to be, and it represented what america’s true motives represented. From a far view the towers looked like the center of the world as they touched the skyline of manhattan. I would do everything in my power to get mayor bloomberg to rebuild them, but honestly i dont know what as citizens what we are supposed to do to help the campaign and rebuild. I would do everything in my power to have those towers rebuilt, but the memorial has already been placed and they are already creating the new world trade center along with the museum. I do not like the freedom tower at all. I think it insults the people of new york and lower manhattan and what the world used to look up to. Instead of the real world trade center, which new yorkers and nj citizens want, they built some “modern” crap in my opinion. I still dont understand why mayor bloomberg wanted to not rebuild the towers. From what i’ve seen 9/11 families would like to see them in the skyline again. Help me understand.
Alex H.
3/9/2012
It would be really nice to rebuild the towers, if only to show America’s resilience. I think that the new World Trade Center 1 (“Freedom Tower”) is a beautiful building in its own right and we should be proud of the work that construction crews are doing on it now. It is certainly a proud achievement. But rebuilding the towers would send a message to the world that America is resilient and will not back down when others try to push it down. They say you “can’t go home again” and no one should feel we are bringing back the Towers. We can no more do that than to bring back the nearly three thousand innocent souls who perished that tragic day. But what we can, and I believe must, do is to show to the world that we are intrepid people.
TTA Note: We make it clear that we are not advocating for 40-year-old towers, but for a 236-year-old system of self-government. More important than showing the world that we are an intrepid people is showing ourselves that we honor our country’s values. The problem with the “Freedom Tower” is that it is an affront to the democratic process. It was conceived and hatched with no regard for the will of the people and is only visible because for ten years, every step of the way, the public has been lied to. And construction workers were lied to. Buildings are built every day. Building a building that represents the polar opposite of what it claims to stand for is not noble — it is a terrible disservice — not on the part of idealistic and dedicated workers, but on the part of the agency and officials who subverted the recovery most of the country wanted and deserved — and was paying for. What good is it to be intrepid if we are deluded?
Sam Matthews
2/19/2012
As much as I loved the original Twin Towers and despise the current “rebuilding” plan, there’s not much we can do at this point. Towers 1 & 4 are on their way to completion with 2 & 3 slowly following. Even if we were somehow able to stop the current plan, which is highly unlikely, there would be no place to build new twins because the layout doesn’t fit it considering the memorial is finished. We would then have to demolish the site and start from scratch, taking another 10+ years to build. The Twin Towers were icons and symbols of New York City and I know I will miss them terribly. It’s always great to be optimistic but sometimes we have to be realistic and accept the fact that we can’t always change everything. It’s sad, but true.
TTA Note: This is a petition, not a bulletin board, for those who agree with the petition’s purpose. But we will not remove the signature or comment since he loved the Twin Towers and despises the current plan. The fact that he has been misinformed makes him one of millions who are drawing faulty conclusions about what is and isn’t feasible and would love to be proved wrong. Anyone who spends time on this site should be able to see that we are not fools and only a fool would continue, if the scenario he presents above were true. It is not. That will become explicitly clear.
K Jani
2/8/2012
Down with the “George Pataki” Tower, although it is almost done. He is the prick that put this hunk of junk here in the first place with this BS design contest, which the result was also BS. He picked the planner as the planner was a friend with Pataki’s friend. Corruption written all over. Now we are being asked to fund this joke. Ridiculous. Cap this joke building already and build new Twins already.
Emily Smith
*2/2/2012
Charles Roeder
1/22/2012
Gabriel Rivera
*1/8/2012
I am 17 now, or turned 17 last year, 2011. The 9-11 terror attacks happened when I was seven years old, but before that I was blessed to be able to see the old NYC skyline, and I think it would more than amazing if it were rebuilt. Before 9-11 my father, (one time as my family visited the city; I live about 45 mins away) pointed to the brothers and told me “You see those two buildings there? They are the strongest in the world. They bombed them before you were born, but they did not fall.” Maybe if the towers are rebuilt, I can tell perhaps in the future tell my son that even though they fell, it did not stop them from coming back. Please rebuild our New York, our Skyline, Our World Trade Center.
Arthur Stanton
1/7/2012
Richard Chale
*1/4/2012
David Clarke
12/9/2011
Born and raised in Orange, N.J. I’ve been to New York City countless times. And the only landmark in New York that brought attention towards my eyes is the good old Twin Towers! Like some or many people who haven’t visited these great structures, I am one of them! I’ve only seen them at a far distance and have been up close to them, but never got to be in them to admire their great beauty of interior design! It saddens and dissappoints me that The Port Authority, The Governor and Mayor of New York ignored and never took into consideration that many of us wanted the Twin Towers rebuilt! If this Petition works in getting what we all wanted, that should’ve been done the last 10 years! Then I would be very happy and very pleased man!
Rachid Bennabi
10/26/2011
I never had a chance to visit the towers despite living in new york I might have been very young at the time but the attack on 9/11 left me scared and empty and I strongly believe that rebuilding them as they were would bring an overwhelming relief and healing to everyone left shattered after that day.
Oji Balija-Toure
*9/15/2011
Chadrick Lawrence
9/11/2011
PLEASE REBUILD THE TWIN TOWERS TO HOW THEY WERE BEFORE TO SHOW AMERICA’S DEFIANCE TO TERRORISM AND RESILIENCY AS A NATION AFTER ALL WE ARE “ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!!!!!”
Jeff Lafoon
9/11/2011
Even though my home now is NJ, I feel like I grew up in NYC because my grandparents lived on Lower East Side, and we would go there once a week. The Twin Towers are the skyline of NYC — bring them back!!! Everyone wants them back — I can’t believe the NYC government didn’t give NYC what they want…and need. There’s still hope, so let’s believe!!! God bless all of our brothers and sisters who have died on 9-11-2001, and their families and friends. We will NEVER forget you!!! Thank you to all those who volunteered for and defended our great nation!!! God bless America and God bless NYC!!!
Blaine Schrader
*9/10/2011
i strongly belive we should rebuild the towers to show al qaeda and all other terrorists that the united states of america will not back down. we are united and stronger than that or the people that died on 9/11 died in vain. our armed forces, police, and firemen did all they could to find any surviving person they could. not rebuilding will show the brave men and women who searched and the families of loved ones who died that we dont care. well i do care and the least we can do is rebuild the towers to show respect to those who risked their lives living or deceased that our nation cares. So sign the petition to show support to those who are living deceased or lost loved ones that america cares!
Linda Martelli
9/10/2011
Adam K.
9/10/2011
I love the twin towers and wish they were still there. I was born in 98 and was only 3 during 9/11, i lived in NY for 7 years. I wish the towers were still there so i would get a chance to see how amazing they are. I always feel sad when i think about how NYC won’t rebuild them. On 9/11 my dad arrived at his dealership in queens and noticed everyone was outside. He asked them what was going on and they said the WTC was hit by an airplane, my dad and family loved the WTC, and when he saw them collapse, he was in shock. And when I was in school today, we were watching a video about 9/11 and I almost cried. I love the WTC and i want it back. I don’t want the freedom tower, i want the NYC skyline, i want the twin towers.
Please build the original Towers back! The rebuilding of them would signify that we Americans never stand down, and will only rebuild after defeat! Sadly, I was too little when I saw the original Towers to remember them, but if they were to be rebuilt, I could not be any happier! Please, everyone, let’s stand up for our freedom as Americans and have the Twin Towers rebuilt!!!!!!!
Theresa Ende
*9/9/2011
I want the Twin Towers back exactly as they were! The Freedom tower doesn’t cut it! Nobody is going to heal with that thing sticking out of the skyline.
Ines Laos
9/9/2011
I just have too many memories of always seeing the towers. I miss them dearly! My husband and I remember being in the windows of the world and always wanted to go back, but never got the chance.
Maryann Hannigan
*9/4/2011
I BELIEVE IT IS NECESSARY AS A NEW YORKER OR JUST BECAUSE IT IS A PART OF THE HEALING PROCESS OF US AS NEW YORKERS TO HAVE A PLACE TO GO TO REFLECT AND REMEMBER THE LIVES LOST ON THE THAT TRAGIC DAY. ON THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY THAT IS COMING SOON, I HOPE TO BE ABLE TO VISIT THE SITE AND PAY MY RESPECT AS A NEW YORKER AND A AMERICAN. NEVER FORGET !!!
Natalia Salerno
*8/30/2011
Apparently Us new yorkers dont want this one world trade center we need our twin towers back in command. I say lets finish this freedom tower but lets build our twin towers right beside the base for the north and south towers are there why not go for it. Its a nice building and i love the design but when you look across the river from jersery i expected to see the twin towers not the one trade tower. you want bigger lets have three buildings instead of 1
Dane Maricic
8/30/2011
tamara thurston
*8/29/2011
Rebuild because if we don’t, we are showing weakness.
Never give up!
We want our Towers back – bigger and more mighty than ever!
As my brother Ray has immortalized in song:
‘We All Stand Tall’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3XEKpunhRA
Michael Goodwin
7/12/2011
If any public officials do read these comments, I urge you to course correct and go with the plan offered by the Twin Towers Alliance. I grew up in New York till high school. The symbolism is all wrong concerning the current design. The memorial is depressing and the lone tower resembles a cemetery structure. The twin towers spoke so many important things. It spoke of trade between different people and countries (two side by side). It spoke of strength and boldness. Give us them back!
K J
*6/16/2011
I made a comment here earlier referring to this as the Osama Bin laden tower and since he’s dead this building should be capped or you are building a memorial for him. The site was poorly planned and looks depressing. I support rebuilding the twin towers and only the twin towers, except no floor trusses this time and make the core concrete hardened.
TTA Note: Petitoners may only sign once. Normally we would combine the two comments, but the email address associated with this comment only appears once. We will write to that address and try to locate the other comment to combine or delete.
Steven Bagienski
6/9/2011
I strongly believe that rebuilding the twin towers is the best solution. Terrorism is supposed to instill fear/terror to the citizens, creating distrust in their country. And it’s done by disrupting our everyday lives. Building anything else sends a message saying “You won, terrorists! We’re scared & incompetent, so we’re trying to cover it up with a fancy memorial.” Rebuilding the towers would say “Look, nothing changed. We’re a strong country & continuing to live our lives. You terrorists aren’t gonna get the satisfaction of making us live in fear”. I came here because of Penn & Teller’s BS show.
Anthony R Coffaro
6/3/2011
Bring them back!
Rachel Heiry
6/3/2011
Every time I had gone to NYC the Twin Towers were my favorite buildings to look at and, to me, they made the city.
Candice Coffaro
6/3/2011
Please bring the Twin Towers back. Bring back NYC!
Kristen Koffaro
6/1/2011
We need the Twin Towers back! They made the city and were iconic around the world. Countless times I have dreamed of going there, or even working there. Watching them collapse was heartbreaking to the core and to see this eye aching replacement is beyond sickening! New York City is not New York City without the Twin Towers there. I know we should and will never forget the tragedy of 9/11, but putting that “freedom” tower there as a replacement is a constant reminder of the helplessness that we felt on that day. Bringing the towers back will not be a “business as usual” symbol. It is a symbol of us getting through this hard time triumphantly. It is a way of healing.
I was born in Nassau County, New York, lived in Hicksville for nine years, moved to Missouri, now I live in Indiana. And after nine years, just turned 19-and-a-half, my love for my New Yorkers and New York itself is still strong. I say rebuild it, which was one of my thoughts after they collapsed. This time with equipped defense system, and variety of exit systems. I want them to be the first thing I see when I return home.
Jim Cassidy
5/5/2011
Rebuild the Twin Towers!!!
ryan morrison
*3/17/2011
i was a friend of the twins… i remember just staring in awe of their incredible height and would say to those who worked up there: “hows the weather up there?” the twins dont deserve to be honored with this whole “freedom tower” junk… REBUILD THE TWIN TOWERS!!!!
david seibel
2/19/2011
I remember looking at the twin towers when i was a kid, and gazing in awe at what an amazing country we were, and how we could build the greatest buildings that I’ve ever seen. I was in first grade when 9/11 happened. My most vivid memory was walking out of my front door on September 12, and being hit in the face with a cloud of ash. I asked my dad if they were going to rebuild the twin towers, and he said “I hope they will. And if they do, you can take your kids there,because I was never able to take you there.” He had told me that he was going to take me soon. Long live the twin towers.
Nick Forster
*12/31/2010
As a kid i always looked forward to going to New York City and seeing the World Trade Centers and i remember my mom taking me out of school when they were hit. It was very devastating to watch and now that i am attempting to become a police officer in New York nothing would make me happier than to see first hand the buildings going back up. :D
Thomas Flatley
10/22/2010
Phillip Ammaturo
*10/3/2010
David Matkowski
10/2/2010
I would really like America’s, and most importantly, OUR Twin Towers rebuilt. They are the true symbols of freedom here in America, both for business as well as fun and excitement around lower Manhattan. They would put the happiness and beauty back into the heart of New York, and the rest of the world as well. We NEED these towers. Everyone loves them, and we all know that it is not the same without them. I am a big Twin Towers person, probably the biggest Twin Towers person there ever was. And remember one thing people, they are OURS, so let’s do it. Let’s get them back !!!
Anthony Guida
9/12/2010
Restore our skyline to the way it should look, with the twin towers there!
Paulina L
9/12/2010
There is a need for justice, peace, and TRUE hope. We have not seen that. We are still broken..plagued with health problems, mental health problems, and feelings of fright as well as insecurity. What have we done? That is a question to continue to ask ourselves. One way to heal us is to rebuild the towers as they were to express our unity and to demonstrate to the world we are not a different people.
I believe that rebuilding the twin towers would help restore hope in our nation and would bring back the majesty of the New York City skyline. As a lifelong resident of the tristate area, those two buildings were not just skyscrapers. They were icons of who we are as a nation and a symbol of what it means to be a New Yorker and New Jersian. We are a tough and resilient people and for that symbol to not be returned to our great city is an absolute crime. Rebuild the towers alongside the Freedom Tower and show the world we haven’t given in and given up.
The Twin Towers were attacked because they symbolized the American way of life. They were the targets and not rebuilding them will leave future generations cheated and give the terrorists the last laugh. The current plan to “rebuild” the WTC accommodates the terrorists plan, and is not very popular among the people at all. I say if we are paying for this site in toll hikes we should have a say! And I think very clearly the Twin Towers would rise again. My family and I were greatly affected by 9/11, and living just minutes away from the city made it even more personal, it was our home. So please Rebuild The Twin Towers!
The best memorial would be an exact replica of the buildings but much stronger to withstand any attack if the effin terrorists ever try that again!
I wish all those brave families good luck and Rest In Peace all those brave first responders who died, I hope all the 3000 lives rest in peace.
I don’t remember seeing the World Trade Center. I was too young and wouldn’t understand it. My father was in the building working there multiple times. He was just over a mile from the trade center when they collapsed. He even took photos of it. I think that they should do this because it was what represented new york during the late 20th century. People around the world dream of seeing them. It would take us back to before all this had happened making you smile everytime you go into the city. Welcome to the top of the world. It just looks like it’s missing everytime you see the view from the top of rockefeller looking beyond the empire state building. Now that they have a 3 sided building with 2 others accompanying it just doesn’t look right.
TTA Note: The following comment is similar to what we have been asked so often by idealistic, young people. We may never understand what motivated a few officials and civic leaders to sell our country short with a recovery that doesn’t measure up in any way to what we lost — when restoring the cherished skyline, in fact instead of fiction, would have inspired the world. Now, after spending seven years working to get to the bottom of it, we don’t know “why” — but what we know for sure is “who”, “what”, “how”, and “why not”. It is a convincing case of wrongdoing that will be presented on the site asap.
I was not old enough to see the towers, they were destroyed when i was in kindergarden. I always wondered what happened to the two huge towers in lower manhattan. Since then i have always seen pictures and videos of what it used to be like in NYC. There was this undeniable vibe to NYC that i could not get over. From what ive seen and heard, manhattan was a different world before 9/11. It’s hard to describe and this may sound crazy but it was like new york was like a magical place to be, and it represented what america’s true motives represented. From a far view the towers looked like the center of the world as they touched the skyline of manhattan. I would do everything in my power to get mayor bloomberg to rebuild them, but honestly i dont know what as citizens what we are supposed to do to help the campaign and rebuild. I would do everything in my power to have those towers rebuilt, but the memorial has already been placed and they are already creating the new world trade center along with the museum. I do not like the freedom tower at all. I think it insults the people of new york and lower manhattan and what the world used to look up to. Instead of the real world trade center, which new yorkers and nj citizens want, they built some “modern” crap in my opinion. I still dont understand why mayor bloomberg wanted to not rebuild the towers. From what i’ve seen 9/11 families would like to see them in the skyline again. Help me understand.
It would be really nice to rebuild the towers, if only to show America’s resilience. I think that the new World Trade Center 1 (“Freedom Tower”) is a beautiful building in its own right and we should be proud of the work that construction crews are doing on it now. It is certainly a proud achievement. But rebuilding the towers would send a message to the world that America is resilient and will not back down when others try to push it down. They say you “can’t go home again” and no one should feel we are bringing back the Towers. We can no more do that than to bring back the nearly three thousand innocent souls who perished that tragic day. But what we can, and I believe must, do is to show to the world that we are intrepid people.
TTA Note: We make it clear that we are not advocating for 40-year-old towers, but for a 236-year-old system of self-government. More important than showing the world that we are an intrepid people is showing ourselves that we honor our country’s values. The problem with the “Freedom Tower” is that it is an affront to the democratic process. It was conceived and hatched with no regard for the will of the people and is only visible because for ten years, every step of the way, the public has been lied to. And construction workers were lied to. Buildings are built every day. Building a building that represents the polar opposite of what it claims to stand for is not noble — it is a terrible disservice — not on the part of idealistic and dedicated workers, but on the part of the agency and officials who subverted the recovery most of the country wanted and deserved — and was paying for. What good is it to be intrepid if we are deluded?
As much as I loved the original Twin Towers and despise the current “rebuilding” plan, there’s not much we can do at this point. Towers 1 & 4 are on their way to completion with 2 & 3 slowly following. Even if we were somehow able to stop the current plan, which is highly unlikely, there would be no place to build new twins because the layout doesn’t fit it considering the memorial is finished. We would then have to demolish the site and start from scratch, taking another 10+ years to build. The Twin Towers were icons and symbols of New York City and I know I will miss them terribly. It’s always great to be optimistic but sometimes we have to be realistic and accept the fact that we can’t always change everything. It’s sad, but true.
TTA Note: This is a petition, not a bulletin board, for those who agree with the petition’s purpose. But we will not remove the signature or comment since he loved the Twin Towers and despises the current plan. The fact that he has been misinformed makes him one of millions who are drawing faulty conclusions about what is and isn’t feasible and would love to be proved wrong. Anyone who spends time on this site should be able to see that we are not fools and only a fool would continue, if the scenario he presents above were true. It is not. That will become explicitly clear.
Down with the “George Pataki” Tower, although it is almost done. He is the prick that put this hunk of junk here in the first place with this BS design contest, which the result was also BS. He picked the planner as the planner was a friend with Pataki’s friend. Corruption written all over. Now we are being asked to fund this joke. Ridiculous. Cap this joke building already and build new Twins already.
I am 17 now, or turned 17 last year, 2011. The 9-11 terror attacks happened when I was seven years old, but before that I was blessed to be able to see the old NYC skyline, and I think it would more than amazing if it were rebuilt. Before 9-11 my father, (one time as my family visited the city; I live about 45 mins away) pointed to the brothers and told me “You see those two buildings there? They are the strongest in the world. They bombed them before you were born, but they did not fall.” Maybe if the towers are rebuilt, I can tell perhaps in the future tell my son that even though they fell, it did not stop them from coming back. Please rebuild our New York, our Skyline, Our World Trade Center.
Born and raised in Orange, N.J. I’ve been to New York City countless times. And the only landmark in New York that brought attention towards my eyes is the good old Twin Towers! Like some or many people who haven’t visited these great structures, I am one of them! I’ve only seen them at a far distance and have been up close to them, but never got to be in them to admire their great beauty of interior design! It saddens and dissappoints me that The Port Authority, The Governor and Mayor of New York ignored and never took into consideration that many of us wanted the Twin Towers rebuilt! If this Petition works in getting what we all wanted, that should’ve been done the last 10 years! Then I would be very happy and very pleased man!
I never had a chance to visit the towers despite living in new york I might have been very young at the time but the attack on 9/11 left me scared and empty and I strongly believe that rebuilding them as they were would bring an overwhelming relief and healing to everyone left shattered after that day.
PLEASE REBUILD THE TWIN TOWERS TO HOW THEY WERE BEFORE TO SHOW AMERICA’S DEFIANCE TO TERRORISM AND RESILIENCY AS A NATION AFTER ALL WE ARE “ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!!!!!”
Even though my home now is NJ, I feel like I grew up in NYC because my grandparents lived on Lower East Side, and we would go there once a week. The Twin Towers are the skyline of NYC — bring them back!!! Everyone wants them back — I can’t believe the NYC government didn’t give NYC what they want…and need. There’s still hope, so let’s believe!!! God bless all of our brothers and sisters who have died on 9-11-2001, and their families and friends. We will NEVER forget you!!! Thank you to all those who volunteered for and defended our great nation!!! God bless America and God bless NYC!!!
i strongly belive we should rebuild the towers to show al qaeda and all other terrorists that the united states of america will not back down. we are united and stronger than that or the people that died on 9/11 died in vain. our armed forces, police, and firemen did all they could to find any surviving person they could. not rebuilding will show the brave men and women who searched and the families of loved ones who died that we dont care. well i do care and the least we can do is rebuild the towers to show respect to those who risked their lives living or deceased that our nation cares. So sign the petition to show support to those who are living deceased or lost loved ones that america cares!
I love the twin towers and wish they were still there. I was born in 98 and was only 3 during 9/11, i lived in NY for 7 years. I wish the towers were still there so i would get a chance to see how amazing they are. I always feel sad when i think about how NYC won’t rebuild them. On 9/11 my dad arrived at his dealership in queens and noticed everyone was outside. He asked them what was going on and they said the WTC was hit by an airplane, my dad and family loved the WTC, and when he saw them collapse, he was in shock. And when I was in school today, we were watching a video about 9/11 and I almost cried. I love the WTC and i want it back. I don’t want the freedom tower, i want the NYC skyline, i want the twin towers.