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Rebuilding The World Trade Centre
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Just found these ideas and plans with might be of interest, a fitting example of rememberance and national pride:
http://www.studiosplatter.com/WTC.htm
Its certainly something, be it just an idea <IMG SRC="smile.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
http://www.studiosplatter.com/WTC.htm
Its certainly something, be it just an idea <IMG SRC="smile.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
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Thinking realisically, the land in downtown Manhattan is too valuable for it to be turned into a Garden of Remembrance type memorial. However, I worry that rebuilding the World Trade Center in the form of two giant towers, whilst showing that America has not been defeated following Sept 11th, has the potential to be seen as celebratory, even arrogant, when in fact terrorism has not been beaten at all.
A bit of humility never hurt anyone. America may have been the victim last September, but it must learn lessons lest Hope and Victory are flattened too.
Don't like the concept of playing the role of "victim". Prefer combatant.
To not rebuild is to accept subjugation to their agenda. Would be a concession of defeat.
Fuck that. And fuck them who attempt it.
America may be a combatant now, but I think that on that day she was a victim. Sure, the defences went up darned quick after the strike -- but that's post facto. Beforehand, she was a victim -- but, like you, I hope she will not come to be in that state again.
To accept an attack/defeat, to "learn to live with it", is a component of being "a victim". The concept thoroughly disgusts me. I fully realize that you meant nothing of a demeaning nature, MacKenZie, but the concept still disgusts me.
I do not claim to be civil, nor civilized. I am the feral entity which hunted at night and escorted enemies of my nation straight to Hell, and then left them there as I hunted for more.
I do not believe in tit for tat; I believe in latching onto the esophagus of them who would do harm to my nation, ripping it from their throat, and tossing it slimey and quivering to the feet of their ilk and bretheren.
Barbarian? Let us hope so. It is barbarians who form/defend nations, and supremist/elitests whose depravity brings them crashing down.
Osama bin Laden should have let sleeping dogs lie; now he has the Teufelhund chasing him to the gates of Hell, and we will feast upon his blood, however long that might take. He didn't slay the dragon, but merely woke it up.
They have been attacked, and they must show that they are capable of rising even higher than they were before.
It is not at all arrogant showing the world, that you are willing to get up on their feet and say, "sure they attacked me, but they will learn better, I can defend myself, and I will".
Only a coward would start thinking wether or not to fight back.
As the terrorists go after civilians, their aim is to hurt the civilians who didn't get killed by frightening them, so should America really give them that pleasure? I sure wouldn't.
Who would want to work on that site, I would not. A statue in my personal humble opinion is a better idea.
Its not arrogant to rebuild as one poster suggested; you call for us to be humble - beleive me, we are. But at the same time, we are a proud nation - why is it even being suggested that it is wrong to have pride in our country.
Personally, I am still in shock of what happened on 9/11. This is tempered with the fear for my fiancee who works in one of Boston's largest structures, the Hancock towers. The fear it could happen again may be muted but for me, its very much there.
If anything, I say rebuild the towers to the exact specifications - down to the marble in the lobbies. Add a fitting memorial to all who were lost and then we will have an appropriate response to terror, regardless of what the bastards are planning and regardless of the fact the war is far from over.
So... vee meet again, Meester Bond.... <IMG SRC="biggrin.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
As for a museum reflecting September 11, the idea just strikes me as crass. What would be included, a video wall with a day by day account? A huge picture by a conceptual artist of the Planes crashing into the towers?
A simple memorial would be the most fitting, as would a like-for like reconstruction of the towers.