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

PetitionOnline ^ | February 18, 2002 | Jeff Head

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#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).

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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.

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252,783

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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.

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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!

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253,169

[Fred Mertz]

Keeping this bumped to the top. Way to go!

[Dec31,1999]

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253,477

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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

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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*