Posted on 10/31/2006 1:12:06 PM PST by presidio9
It's the only piece of the World Trade Center still standing where it was before terrorists destroyed the twin towers.
But the "survivors' staircase," a path to safety for countless workers on September 11th, 2001, will be moved -- to build one of five planned office towers on the site.
Preservationists, including a group that named the staircase one of America's most endangered places this year, are lobbying to keep the only standing remnant of the destroyed trade center complex where it is.
A final home for the The 21-foot-high, 350-thousand-pound staircase, which once connected an elevated plaza to a street north of the site, still isn't decided.
Historians had hoped it would be returned to the same spot where survivors of the terrorist attacks found it in a debris-filled plaza, following the stairs from a bridge to street level just before the second tower collapsed.
Tell you what: Why don't you go get yourself a foot-long with extra mayonaise on one end and think about it...
I had lunch already, but thanks for the sentiment! ;-)
And I thought Savage was confrontational. Sounds instead like he's gone all mellow, out there on the Coast.
Bump for what presidio9 said about life goes on and returning that property to its previous uses, and let me add, the skyline to its previous appearance.
But think about this, too. Something about the WTC pissed off the Moo jerkoffs around Osama. They hated it. That's all I need to know, okay? Build it. And **** 'em.
Right before we kill 'em.
I'm all for killing the bad guys! Get 'em!!!
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