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A memorial without rebuilding the towers would be a memorial to the terrorists. The real symbolic gesture that is absolutely necessary is to REBUILD THE TOWERS! I don't want to hear that defeatist you wouldn't find tenants because it would be a terrorist target. Thats like nobody flew after 9-11 because of fear of terrorists. Well, we got over it. Air traffic is at levels higher that it ever was. Have their been any more suicide planes since we started kickin' some muslim extremist ass all over the friggin' world? These towers can be marketed just like anything else. We need to find anchor tenants and give them incentives for being there. Some high visibility government agencies should be in there like treasury, FBI, CIA etc. Some high power corporations looking to uplift their national image could be given incentives to locate there. The towers logo could be a powerful symbol to associate with....like Prudential does with the Rock of Gibraltar. The public relations value alone would be worth the risk, especially if there were economic incentives. Once the anchors were in place the rest would follow.
This is necessary for America. One of the reasons we have lost some support and enthusiasm for the war is because we haven't connected it with how much safer we are at home.Putting up the towers would be a huge spiritual catharsis for the nation and galvanize or support for the war on muslim extremism. Those towers got to go back up. If anybody thinks that we win with some kind of sorry ass memorial to the dead they are thinking scared. America is a can do nation....no muslim arabs living in caves and on sand dunes are capable of stopping us. If we don't rebuild the towers, it says were afraid they can do it again. Come on now, be real, they used our technology and our trusting positive free spirit and combined it with a suicidal, demented, self destructive, religion to attack us without provocation. Our eyes are open now...lets rebuild and dare them to try again. I don't want to hear anything less than total commitment from those of us patriotic enough to love what we stand for.

you will find anchor tenants - for the lower floors. the point is that businesses have already relocated out of that area, they had no choice since the WTC was destroyed. They aren't going to just all break their leases and come back. With all these other controversies about the site - these museums, the terrible architecture of the freedom tower, the fight in manhattan over where to build (this is what killed the west side stadium and the olympics) - its a mess. we didn't park another battleship on top of the Arizona after Pearl Harbor.