Posted by  James C on October 21, 2001 at 06:58:28:

In Reply to:  Re: If not here, where? (2) posted by Tricia Lyday on October 13, 2001 at 15:05:23:

Replace the towers with two identical towers of 130 stories each - leaving the 20 floors in each tower where the planes hit as a memorial to the victims who were lost. The memorial should be something grand, meaningful, and poignant but that isn't forced upon we remaining New Yorkers who have to be there day in and day out. I mean no disrespect, but being enveloped in the inhumanity of this destruction is in fact debilitating. It is to me just looking at the once old but now new skyline absent those towers on my drive to work in Manhattan every day.

Most importantly, no one should occupy the spaces of the impacts of the planes out of respect. This accomplished several things:

The loss of life and collateral should not and cannot be denied by not recreating a bigger and better WTC

It sends a message to the terrorists that we not only rebuilt, we rebuilt bigger.

It leaves enough space for a memorial for each and every ONE person lost....without it being something that consumes us every day as we would have to seek it out.

I like the idea of it being in the opposite corners - and I love the towers of light.

We have to rebuild and we have to rebuild twin towers.

Americans are known for resilience, and ingenuity.

New Yorkers even more so.

Of course, we could rebuild four towers surrounding one huge tower taller than the sears tower. In effect, flipping the bird to Bin Laden....

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