Twin Towers II

Twin Towers model at MSNBC (David Shuster)

I casually clicked on this news article. When I saw the towers my heart leapt. When I read:

... for a brief moment today, we saw why so many people feel it is so important that newer, safer, stronger Twin Towers be built at Ground Zero.

I nearly got a shiver.

I have been semi-following the recent events surrounding the redevelopment of Ground Zero. From what I understand, construction was about to begin a few weeks ago when Governor Pataki brought the whole thing to a grinding halt and issued an order to "redesign". Whoa! At the time I figured that meant it would take longer then my natural lifetime to have anything there but two big holes in the ground. But right now, this very moment, I feel excitement that one day I will go back to NY and see two huge towers dominating the southern skyline of the city.

I am not a New Yorker. I have no real dog in this hunt. But I am an American who was, and still is, deeply touched by the events of September 11, 2001. A few weeks after the attack I watched Mayor Giuliani make a plea that he had enough volunteers, enough food and enough blood. What he really needed were tourists. A few weeks after that, I emptied out my bank account and got on a plane. I saw the twisted metal and the holes in the ground. I walked all around it. That's my only trip to New York thus far. However, I sympathize with New Yorkers that believe the only reasonable plan is to erect two new Twin Towers. Anything else is less. It is cowardice. It is letting those @#$@%# win. It is unacceptable. I agree wholeheartedly with Donald Trump who says about the Freedom Tower:

The last thing we need in New York is a skeleton representing the World Trade Center. I think it's not an appropriate design.

I didn't like the design of the Freedom Tower, but I figured that was the speech of someone who lives hundreds of miles away from New York. I thought, if New Yorker's (for the most part) like it than so be it. It's their city, after all. But if there is a wellspring of New Yorkers who support rebuilding the Twin Towers, I salute you, I stand by you, I THANK you and I will prove it by coming there and spending more money ... well, I'll do that anyway, but you know what I mean.

New Twin Towers would be a tribute to the victims. It is the ultimate example of American resiliency. It is also the second biggest insult to the bastards that toppled the first ones. Of course, forcing them to live in a treacherous mountain region and survive on a diet of their own cooked feces while hunting them like wild animals and killing them is the ultimate insult, but we're already working on that one.