People across this country and around the world were cheated out of the 21st-century Twin Towers most of us always wanted. Click above for a selection of comments that are a rebuke to the cynicism that tried to replace them and failed.
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…
Bobby Fletcher
7/17/2018All Other Americans
The Twin Towers should be rebuilt. The people who are responsible for their attack have won as long as the towers remain in the past. There would not be a more fitting memorial for the victims of that day to see the towers rise again and be the symbol for America of freedom and resiliency to overcome the darkest of days. I was only 7 when 9/11/2001 occurred I to this day am memorized by those towers and was cheated out of being able to visit them. I was at the site for the first time this year and wished I would have gotten to see them. Do the right thing for New York and America Rebuild The Twin Towers
Shane Keena
7/12/2018All Other Americans
This would fill out the skyline. I was born in Tallahassee, Florida, but raised the New York way! I would have loved to go on the top of the South Tower, and look over the top of everything! This would make it the best in the world!
Patrick Lutkus
7/7/2018Citizens of Other Nations
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.
Emilija Jesic
7/7/2018Citizens of Other Nations
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!
Roie Shalom
6/17/2018Citizens of Other Nations
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.
Patrick Wray
6/8/2018All Other Americans
I wasn’t born on 9/11, so I never got a chance to visit the twin towers. It’s my dream. Give me the chance!
Alexander Ramalho
6/3/2018Citizens of Other Nations
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!
Mark McCarty
5/28/2018All Other NY & NJ Residents
I grew up in NJ and I always saw the Twin Towers whenever we went to the city. To me, they symbolized NYC. I dare say that they WERE NYC for many people, myself included. The skyline just looks wrong without the Twin Towers back where they belong.
We should have rebuilt the towers. Not only would that make the skyline look right; not only would that be a fitting memorial to those who died there; it would be a nice, heartfelt “F You!” to those who brought them down! Give those bastards the finger times two!
My late mother thought that they should have been rebuilt, as do I. Make NY right again; rebuild the Twin Towers!
Noah Healey
*5/18/2018All Other Americans
We need to restore lower Manhattan. Every era has their symbol in New York City. The Twin Towers were a symbol of the late 20th century and its contribution to New York. The Empire State was a symbol of the early 20th century. Right now we have a gap in New York and we need to hurry and rebuild the twin towers. The majority of people born after 1991 do not care about restoring the towers so we must act quick because slowly but surely those that remember the towers will be gone some day. ΨΨΨ REBUILD!
Luke Metz
5/5/2018All Other Americans
Let’s build replicas; bring the 90’s feel back!
Bryn Miles
*4/25/2018Citizens of Other Nations
Tristan I Ford
4/23/2018All Other Americans
That would be nice if they did build New Twin Towers.
Brock Schram
*4/2/2018Metro New Yorkers
Kyle Hardy
*3/19/2018All Other Americans
Too Late… I was born almost one year after the towers fell. Knowing what my fellow Americans went through, nothing would fill me with more pride than to see the Lower Manhattan skyline restored to its former glory.
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Joseph Edwards
*2/18/2018All Other Americans
Rebuild the Twin Towers. Need I say more? The only buildings that belong back on Ground Zero are the Twin Towers. It’s the only proper choice. America deserves the Twin Towers as a rebirth of its dedication to world peace. It needs a symbol that can express the American spirit better than a thousand words. Make the World Trade Center the same soulful place it was 20 years ago. Rebuild the Twin Towers. Make a positive difference in America.
Tanya Marinelli
2/15/2018Metro New Yorkers
Please rebuild them. Because they were My TWINS TOO!! TO Show them that nothing will ever break US or Tear US Apart. That is Right The US!
Tanya Renay Marinelli
Ricardo Kozak
2/8/2018All Other Americans
amin touran
*1/30/2018Citizens of Other Nations
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.
John Lenhart
1/18/2018All Other Americans
Emmanuel Moreno
*1/12/2018All Other Americans
I was born in 2001, I never got to see the Twin Towers :( WE NEED TO REBUILD THEM, WE NEED TO REBUILD THEM!! The original WTC was a very grand symbol for NYC and the United States of America. They were well known across the world! The towers were beautiful and really defined the NYC skyline. If we don’t rebuild them, the terrorists win. Let’s say your mom died, and then they say “she died, but here’s a new, different one!†IT’S NOT THE SAME. If we build them stronger & safer, it will show the world we will ALWAYS heal from the ashes and come back stronger than ever…WE ARE AMERICA. Imagine if they are rebuilt—it would have a TREMENDOUS amount of tourism! My life will be complete when they are rebuilt, I WANT TO SEE THESE BUI
John Mathews
12/4/2017All Other Americans
I was born after the 9/11 attacks, and I didn’t know what had happened until I was around 5-6. I remember for the first time watching the Disney film Oliver and Company. It started with a great establishing shot of New York. That was the first time I’d ever seen them before, all I had known about NY was the Empire State Building. I thought they were coolest things in the world, idk why. So later on I caught a movie or an episode of a TV show on cable, idk what it was but it featured the Twin Towers. I hadn’t seen them in a live action film before and it blew my mind, I fell in love with them. Anyway, later I told my mother about how I wanted to go to NY and see them, which is when I learned about 9/11. I wanted to see them all my life.
James Teller
*12/1/2017Metro New Yorkers
Karel Kouda
11/17/2017All Other Americans
James Mazzie
*11/15/2017All Other Americans
The only true way would be to build similar Twin Towers. As always, prayers to the victims and families!
Filipp Kurkov
*11/9/2017Architects and Builders
With all due respect to the new complex of the World Trade Center, in the composition of its buildings there is not such a significant sharpness of the silhouette as it was in the original solution. Powerful character, individuality … this is of course either twins, or a stronger solution than the current one.
Andrews Piloto
11/7/2017All Other Americans
Our beloved twin towers were the most iconic of New York City. By leaving them in the past, you are knowingly allowing our enemies to claim victory. Ridding this planet Osama’s disgusting presence wasn’t enough. We want our Twin Towers back! Nothing, especially not the new, inferior to the original, “One World Trade Center” will ever be capable of replacing our glorious towers. Time will never heal those wounds. Sixteen years is far too long of a wait! Only the rebirth of our beloved towers will heal those soars. Hear our demands, and do as we the people desire! Give us back our towers and reintroduce the people of New York City with the greatest sense of pride, honor, and dignity that only their beloved twin towers were capable of giving.
I am a portuguese guy and i want the beutifull wtc exactly as it was,because the terrorists will never win
Eduardo Gonzalez
*10/30/2017Citizens of Other Nations
Andrew Pike
*10/25/2017Citizens of Other Nations
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.
Adrian Martir
10/20/2017All Other Americans
I never got to go inside the twin towers and will if they get rebuilt just have to knock down that dumb one world trade center
Owen De la Cruz
*9/12/2017Lwr. Manhattan Residents & Workers
The twin towers were iconic buildings. I want to see Two World Trade Center built to twin One World Trade Center. Bring the twin towers back to Manhattan.
Kyle Spadaro
*9/11/2017NYC’s Bravest & Families
My dad helped with the recovery operations at the WTC for months. Of the 343 firefighters killed on 9/11, my dad knew about 50 of them. Make the skyline whole again! Rebuild the towers!
David Palm
9/11/2017All Other Americans
“We should have the World Trade Center bigger and better.” – Donald Trump
Irvin Ferguson
*7/2/2017All Other Americans
I feel we should have replaced both towers and NOT put up a TV broadcasting antenna that resembles a Muslim minaret on a single ugly tower. Sincerely, Irv
Ruilin Peng
6/5/2017Citizens of Other Nations
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.
Guillaume Laporte
6/2/2017Citizens of Other Nations
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.
Nicholas Hanley
4/27/2017All Other Americans
Even though I was only two when it happened, as a freedom-loving patriotic American, I look at what happened on 9/11 as an attack on the United States by those whose goal was to destroy these symbols of our economic prosperity, crush the American spirit, and destroy our way of life. If we go ahead with the current plan and continue to build these new odd buildings over where these symbols once stood, instead of rebuilding the original structures bigger and better and stronger than ever, then the terrorists and those who sought to destroy these symbols will win, and they will have succeeded in accomplishing their primary goal, which is something as Americans we cannot accept or allow. Rebuild the original towers.
Daniel Bond
4/5/2017All Other Americans
I was born in ’95 and never got to go see them, I never even new they existed until I clicked on a 9/11 memorial video at 13 years old and was horrified! I fully expected them to be rebuilt but they where not inset an ugly giant tombstone was erected as a statement piece for the corporations rather then try to recover from what happened!
-Never Forget!
Moira Malachikhina
3/22/2017Citizens of Other Nations
Titus Hallen
*3/20/2017All Other Americans
Michail Malachikhine
*2/24/2017Citizens of Other Nations
Micah Weir
*2/1/2017All Other Americans
I was born in 1999 and do not remember them. I want our nations symbol back!
Conor Joseph
1/14/2017Metro New Yorkers
Sebastian Alzate
1/10/2017All Other Americans
Ever since I was a little kid I dreamed of seeing the great towers but unfortunately I never got the chance. But when I saw this project I knew It had to be done and I fully support and hope that this project will be successful in the future!
Christian Carrillo
*1/3/2017All Other Americans
The twin towers were a symbol of our great nation. They need to be brought back to life.
Henry Nguyen
*12/19/2016All Other Americans
I never got to see the Twin Towers in person, though I hope that will change soon. The Freedom Tower is fine, but it should be in another city, heck, even another borough. If what it takes to rebuild the Twin Towers is razing the new World Trade Center,then I’m down with that.
Paul Hupperdine
*12/12/20169/11 Families & Close Friends
We need the Twin Towers. The new tower, One World Trade Center, just does not do it justice. I can’t even express the amount of sadness I have that those buildings aren’t there anymore, and what’s in their place is an eyesore, a modern contemporary-design skyscraper that completely ignores what made the Twin Towers unique. Nothing like them has ever existed, they were a tribute to the time period in which they were built, and a symbol of America. New York, and America itself needs the Twin Towers back.
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…
The Twin Towers should be rebuilt. The people who are responsible for their attack have won as long as the towers remain in the past. There would not be a more fitting memorial for the victims of that day to see the towers rise again and be the symbol for America of freedom and resiliency to overcome the darkest of days. I was only 7 when 9/11/2001 occurred I to this day am memorized by those towers and was cheated out of being able to visit them. I was at the site for the first time this year and wished I would have gotten to see them. Do the right thing for New York and America Rebuild The Twin Towers
This would fill out the skyline. I was born in Tallahassee, Florida, but raised the New York way! I would have loved to go on the top of the South Tower, and look over the top of everything! This would make it the best in the world!
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.
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!
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.
I wasn’t born on 9/11, so I never got a chance to visit the twin towers. It’s my dream. Give me the chance!
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!
I grew up in NJ and I always saw the Twin Towers whenever we went to the city. To me, they symbolized NYC. I dare say that they WERE NYC for many people, myself included. The skyline just looks wrong without the Twin Towers back where they belong.
We should have rebuilt the towers. Not only would that make the skyline look right; not only would that be a fitting memorial to those who died there; it would be a nice, heartfelt “F You!” to those who brought them down! Give those bastards the finger times two!
My late mother thought that they should have been rebuilt, as do I. Make NY right again; rebuild the Twin Towers!
We need to restore lower Manhattan. Every era has their symbol in New York City. The Twin Towers were a symbol of the late 20th century and its contribution to New York. The Empire State was a symbol of the early 20th century. Right now we have a gap in New York and we need to hurry and rebuild the twin towers. The majority of people born after 1991 do not care about restoring the towers so we must act quick because slowly but surely those that remember the towers will be gone some day. ΨΨΨ REBUILD!
Let’s build replicas; bring the 90’s feel back!
That would be nice if they did build New Twin Towers.
Too Late… I was born almost one year after the towers fell. Knowing what my fellow Americans went through, nothing would fill me with more pride than to see the Lower Manhattan skyline restored to its former glory.
We particularly appreciate this comment because it highlights a pervasive misunderstanding, which our new home page will clearly expose.
Rebuild the Twin Towers. Need I say more? The only buildings that belong back on Ground Zero are the Twin Towers. It’s the only proper choice. America deserves the Twin Towers as a rebirth of its dedication to world peace. It needs a symbol that can express the American spirit better than a thousand words. Make the World Trade Center the same soulful place it was 20 years ago. Rebuild the Twin Towers. Make a positive difference in America.
Please rebuild them. Because they were My TWINS TOO!! TO Show them that nothing will ever break US or Tear US Apart. That is Right The US!
Tanya Renay Marinelli
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.
I was born in 2001, I never got to see the Twin Towers :( WE NEED TO REBUILD THEM, WE NEED TO REBUILD THEM!! The original WTC was a very grand symbol for NYC and the United States of America. They were well known across the world! The towers were beautiful and really defined the NYC skyline. If we don’t rebuild them, the terrorists win. Let’s say your mom died, and then they say “she died, but here’s a new, different one!†IT’S NOT THE SAME. If we build them stronger & safer, it will show the world we will ALWAYS heal from the ashes and come back stronger than ever…WE ARE AMERICA. Imagine if they are rebuilt—it would have a TREMENDOUS amount of tourism! My life will be complete when they are rebuilt, I WANT TO SEE THESE BUI
I was born after the 9/11 attacks, and I didn’t know what had happened until I was around 5-6. I remember for the first time watching the Disney film Oliver and Company. It started with a great establishing shot of New York. That was the first time I’d ever seen them before, all I had known about NY was the Empire State Building. I thought they were coolest things in the world, idk why. So later on I caught a movie or an episode of a TV show on cable, idk what it was but it featured the Twin Towers. I hadn’t seen them in a live action film before and it blew my mind, I fell in love with them. Anyway, later I told my mother about how I wanted to go to NY and see them, which is when I learned about 9/11. I wanted to see them all my life.