Posted Mar 30, 2009, 12:33 PM
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Former governor Pataki's 2 cents...
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03282009...dom_161699.htm
SELLING OUT 'FREEDOM'
By GEORGE PATAKI
March 28, 2009
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At a time when economic crisis has taught us the dangers of surrendering principles for money, selling out our values is the last thing we should be doing.
To put a price on the word freedom is outrageous.
To reuse the address One World Trade Center because it is a "good marketing tool" is a disgrace.
One World Trade was the address of the North Tower, while Two World Trade was the address of its twin to the south. Almost 3,000 brave men and women died in and around those towers on 9/11. Those addresses are, and should be, as sacred as the ground on which they stood.
At the site of One World Trade will be a void with a reflecting pool at its base and a waterfall far above -- surrounded by the names of those who lost their lives in those horrible attacks.
To me, and I believe for most who were there that day, or who lost loved ones, One World Trade will always be a sacred place, hallowed ground.
The new tower rising across the street is not the old tower, nor is it just another building. Regardless of what the Port Authority seeks to call it for "marketing purposes," it will still rise 1776 feet tall. It will still pay homage to the memorial with its symbolic voids.
It will still honor the memory of those who died and those who responded so courageously. It will still soar to new heights never before reached in America showing our confidence in our future, our belief in liberty and our way of life.
Our freedom is not for sale. It will always be the Freedom Tower.
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