Rebuild the Twin Towers

I received this e-mail today, and wanted to pass it along:

Dear Twin Towers Supporter,

There is no good reason to leave the Twin Towers where the terrorists put them. One man wrote in 2002: "Just as I want my wife back, people want their towers back. The main difference is the latter is possible, the former, not . . . That's what they want . . . don't let today's fears control tomorrow's dreams."

Clear-headed and far-sighted analysts have noted that the economic and strategic benefits of new Twin Towers would be enormous. In fact, nothing could compare.

You understand that, which is why you signed the original Team Twin Towers petition. And now that the ill-conceived framework for Ground Zero is failing, the Twin Towers Alliance is ready to redirect attention where it belonged from the start.

The picture at Ground Zero needs to be reframed. Mayor Bloomberg recently said that the critics are "not very helpful" and are emboldening Larry Silverstein to hold his ground. But it is the dissension at Ground Zero that has prevented a terrible mistake from being made. If only they had honored the people's participation to begin with, instead of staging that elaborate sham, the Towers would already be rising -- lifting, at the same time, the spirit of the city and the world beyond.

Instead they have given us a pitifully chaotic and uninspiring alternative that reeks of a sell-out. We won't accept it. There is so much more at stake than real estate and city planning.

If this is not worth standing up for and being counted, even if to begin with you are out in front of the crowd, then what would be? It's not too late -- the timing is just right, but without your name on the petition all the striving could be in vain.

If we haven't won you over, then we'll keep trying. But, if you close this email, go to the petition, and sign your name before you do another thing, we'll have a true shot at success. You will be strengthening the alliance, others will follow, and united we will stand for something great.

Austin Tobin, a man who personally sacrificed a great deal to raise the Twin Towers the first time, would often invoke the words of Daniel Burnham, the architect who built New York's Flatiron Building, when trying to build support for the World Trade Center: "Make no small plans -- for they have no power to stir the blood." Those words echo the core principle of the Alliance: "Dream no small dreams" for they have no power to stir the human heart. Small plans and small dreams have no place at Ground Zero. That is what this is all about.

If you were told that you had it in your power to decide whether the Towers would rise again just by joining the Twin Towers Alliance, would you think twice? It really is as simple as that. Each of us will either be part of the solution or part of the problem. We are hoping that your commitment to new Twin Towers will translate into solid support.

This may be the loftiest cause many of us will ever serve. We can win. We could lose. We need you on our side.

Thank you.

Team Twin Towers/The Twin Towers Alliance

VOTE TO REBUILD!
www.twintowersalliance.com