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Larry Silverstein, the developer whose company just took over a 99-year, $3.2 billion lease on the twin towers complex in July, said he wants to rebuild, but not "a carbon copy of what was." Instead, he said on Thursday he may construct four 50-story buildings.

The 110-story twin towers, though maligned in their early years by critics who considered them boring, gangly, environmentally destructive and even arrogant, eventually won the hearts of New Yorkers and others worldwide as symbols of soaring aspirations and bold financial success. The world watched in horror on Sept. 11 as passenger jets with terrorists at the helm tore into the towers, eventually crumbling them and leaving thousands missing — 6,333 at last count.

Wouldn't it be the boldest, most defiant move of all for the towers to once again rise from the ashes?

I hope he does rebuild. I hope a large monumnet is erected there too.

But, I hope you know, that this thread is about a National Monument at the Crash Site of Flight 93 in the Pennsylvania countryside where the passengers fought the terrorists and it came down before reaching DC.