Governor Pataki, you've ruled Ground Zero with an iron fist for too long. You've let corporate elites and other special interest groups dominate what's done here. |
Our focus has always been to ensure the maximum preservation and access to the remains of the footprints for the American people and future visitors to the site, |
The IFC threatens to turn ground zero into a place of endless controversy rather than a place of honor. |
The IFC threatens to turn Ground Zero into a place of endless controversy, not a place of honor. |
The IFC threatens to turn ground zero into a place of endless controversy rather than a place of honour, |
The International Freedom Center has now confirmed that it plans to take the memory of 9/11 and use it to flog their own personal ideology. Politics left, right or in the middle do not belong on sacred ground. Ground zero should not be used as a public square. |
The leg is not too bad and I am just doing rehab stuff at the moment, trying to make it strong, |
Their plans destroy the remnants of the footprints. We're trying to prevent the LMDC from making a terrible mistake. |
There is hope that we will be able to stop the LMDC from trampling the footprints. |
These footprints evoke what was lost as well as the human drama that took place there in a way that no museum or memorial ever could. If destroyed, future visitors will be robbed of the ability to grasp the true scale of the twin towers and will be denied access to the only tangible scar the attacks left on our nation's soil. |
These footprints evoke what was lost, as well as the human drama that took place at this site on September 11 in a way that no museum or no memorial ever could. |
They are the last scar that 9/11 has made on this soil. |
They fail to meet our major criteria, which was maximum access and preservation of that bedrock area. |
They've never justified the need for this extra platform. The priority is the commercial, and then the history is secondary. |
Today is a very sad day for America. |