WTC Flag Raising & Memorial Petition Surpasses 1/4 Million (250,000) Signatures!!!

PetitionOnline ^ | February 18, 2002 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

The Petition to New York City regarding the Firefighter Memorial

protesting the originally proposed Ground Zero Flag Raising Statue and seeking that the as yet unstated plans for a memorial be non-political and historically correct, has surpassed the 250,000 signature mark. It now stands at:

250,650 Signatures

The First 120,000 signatures have been sent to New York firefighters for delivery to the Mayor's Office.

The next 130,000 signatures will be on their way as soon as they are extracted, printed and bound. We will keep doing this until it is clear that plans for the memorial are not politcally driven and are not revisionist. That being the case, please continue to point others towards the petition site at:

http://www.petitiononline.com/flgraise/

to sign and forward the petition on to all they know. We can win this fight and in the process see many of our fellow Americans awakened to the PC-BS going on all around them which they in turn will question and then fight.

Here are the prior FR threads regarding this:

WTC Flag Raising Petition - First 120,000 signatures shipped to NYC - 73 posts
WTC Flag Raising & Memorial Petition Status - Surpasses 200,000 Signatures!!! - 307 posts
WTC Flag Raising & Memorial Petition Status - Surpasses 150,000 Signatures - 501 posts
UPDATE/STATUS/PLANS - WTC Flag Raising Petition - 127,500+ Signatures 422 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition Surpasses 100,000 Signatures - PRESS RELEASE 486 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition Breaks 75K Signatures 880 posts
FDNY inspired on-line petition blows by 64,000 signatures, 1 week 196 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition gathers over 40,000 Signatures in Four Days! 75 posts
WTC Flag Raising Petition Breaks 10,000 signatures in two days! 198 Posts
Online Petition: Depict the Flag Raising at Ground Zero of the WTC Attack as it Actually Occurred! 717 posts

[kayak]

#58 abd #59 .... at least everyone knows we're being honest in reporting the numbers ..... :-)

[nicmarlo]

Okay, so, I was wrong about getting to 250,000 by Sat. night. You were real close this time, d14! Do you have a crystal ball? (I thought you said you didn't).

[kayak]

252,211

[Frohickey]

I don't quite see the importance of this petition. In fact, I'm a little bit against it. I would rather have the WTC built (at least in the exterior) EXACTLY like it was.

I think a fitting memorial would be building the WTC as it was before.

[kayak]

The petition is about a memorial statue. Someone proposed doing a statue from this now-famous picture .....

..... but then the model for the statue was significantly different. Rather than depicting the 3 firefighters who raised the flag that day and were captured on camera, some genius decided that it would be politically incorrect to show three white men. So the statue was changed to depict a white man, an African-American, and a Hispanic man. And the whole configuration was changed. The positions of the 3 firefighters in the model is completely different ...... it really loses all the emotion of the day ..... thus defeating the purpose of memorializing the moment.

Many people feel that a memorial to all the rescue workers and victims, depicting people of all races as well as showing police and other rescue workers, would be quite appropriate ..... but that it should be an entirely different statue ...... not a weak, uninspiring version sort of like that famous picture. If it is to depict that scene, it should depict it like it happened ..... not some watered-down, PC version just to suit the social engineers of the day. History should be depicted as it happened, not like the PC crowd wishes it had happened.

This has nothing at all to do with when, if, or how the WTC is rebuilt.

[kayak]

252,783

[kayak]

252,969

[Frohickey]

This has nothing at all to do with when, if, or how the WTC is rebuilt.

Oh... I thought it was about rebuilding the WTC. Sorry.

[kayak]

253,061

[kayak]

No need to apologize at all. Your comment provided an opportunity to explain the purpose of the petition (though Jeff could do a better job than I did on that), provided you with some new information, and also bumped the thread ..... :-)

[He Rides A White Horse]

.........Onward!

[kayak]

253,169

[Fred Mertz]

Keeping this bumped to the top. Way to go!

[Dec31,1999]

[kayak]

253,477

[kayak]

253,537

[blaze]

Now lets get 250,000 + on this one...It's hell out here in California!!!http://www.petitiononline.com/immiGBA/petition.html

[kayak]

253,685

[kayak]

Now here's a new word for you ..... or at least it was for me .....

..... #253734 ... Codswallop

I'll have to remember that one (unless someone tells me it's really a naughty word and I'm too naive to know it) ..... *grins*