Save the WTC Sphere
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SAVE THE WTC SPHERE
The bronze globe sculpture The Sphere was created by artist Frtiz Koenig. It stood as the centerpiece of the World Trade Center plaza for thirty years as a symbol of world peace.
On September 11, though severely damaged in the terrorist attacks, it emerged intact from the rubble of the WTC. It was thus embraced as a symbol of the strength and perseverance of America.
It currently stands in Battery Park, about a half mile south of Ground Zero. It was installed there with much ceremony on March 11, 2002, the sixth month anniversary of the attacks, as a temporary memorial. There was full intent at the time, and the 9/11 families were promised, that the Sphere would be returned as the centerpiece of the future 9/11 memorial at the World Trade Center.
Instead, however, the Sphere, the only remaining intact remnant of the WTC has been banned from Ground Zero and the national Sept. 11 memorial.
The designers of the memorial have ruled that it CANNOT be returned. In order, they said, to protect the integrity of the design.
The memorial design will include over 500 trees. Mayor Bloomberg and his deputy mayor, Patricia Harris, will not permit any of those trees to be cleared to create a proper space that allows the return of the Sphere and respects its history and significance.
At Ground Zero, landscaping takes precedence over 9/11.
This is a denial of history. It is an affront against the American spirit that triumphed 9/11; it is an assault upon truth and memory. It betrays the memory of the innocents slaughtered there.
America has no more vital historical artifact than the WTC Sphere. We DEMAND the return of the Sphere as the centerpiece of the National September Memorial at the World Trade Center.
The bronze globe sculpture The Sphere was created by artist Frtiz Koenig. It stood as the centerpiece of the World Trade Center plaza for thirty years as a symbol of world peace.
On September 11, though severely damaged in the terrorist attacks, it emerged intact from the rubble of the WTC. It was thus embraced as a symbol of the strength and perseverance of America.
It currently stands in Battery Park, about a half mile south of Ground Zero. It was installed there with much ceremony on March 11, 2002, the sixth month anniversary of the attacks, as a temporary memorial. There was full intent at the time, and the 9/11 families were promised, that the Sphere would be returned as the centerpiece of the future 9/11 memorial at the World Trade Center.
Instead, however, the Sphere, the only remaining intact remnant of the WTC has been banned from Ground Zero and the national Sept. 11 memorial.
The designers of the memorial have ruled that it CANNOT be returned. In order, they said, to protect the integrity of the design.
The memorial design will include over 500 trees. Mayor Bloomberg and his deputy mayor, Patricia Harris, will not permit any of those trees to be cleared to create a proper space that allows the return of the Sphere and respects its history and significance.
At Ground Zero, landscaping takes precedence over 9/11.
This is a denial of history. It is an affront against the American spirit that triumphed 9/11; it is an assault upon truth and memory. It betrays the memory of the innocents slaughtered there.
America has no more vital historical artifact than the WTC Sphere. We DEMAND the return of the Sphere as the centerpiece of the National September Memorial at the World Trade Center.
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Jonathan B
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- This is a memorial, not an art installation or a new park. Forget "integrity of the design."
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rb w
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- This is a no brainer Mr Mayor!!!
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J. Troy L
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- [email protected]
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KC C
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- I am an artist so I can say this: Too many "artists" have egos much larger than their product design. Move beyond yourselves and do the right thing!
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Warren N
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- It should be at the memorial site
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Rev. F. Staton Bentley J
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mudflap
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- what is this nation comming to?
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Jamie L
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Tatiana Z
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- "THE ONE WHO DOES NOT REMEMBER HISTORY IS BOUND TO LIVET THROUGH IT AGAIN" GEORGE SANTAYANA
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Stacy G
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- Don't throw away our history. What do the 500 trees represent - there were more than 500 deaths at the WTC. Certainly 4-5 trees could be put somewhere else closeby along the streets so the sphere can remain in plain site so my kids can remember what happened since they never got to know the Twin Towers.
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J. C. W
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Diana M
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Edna C. Luciano N
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- You have forgotten......."WE WILL NEVER FORGET"
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Kathleen H
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- There is no time machine to go back and undo that day, 9/11. Let's put back, give back what is left to give back. Return the sphere to its rightful home.
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Jeff K
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- The sphere is the only remaining intact item that is associated with the WTC. It deserves to be put back where it properly belongs, ON THE SITE of the 9-11 attacks (Ground Zero). This monument is to honor and commemorate the WTC and all that it represented. Whose feelings matter more? Some "out of touch" designer who is only looking at the publicity this monument will gain him, or the hundreds, if not thousands of victim's families whose lives were utterly shattered on Sept. 11, 2001? I implore you to look at this from an objective standpoint. America should not bow to the will of a designer, but should rather stand up for its values, and save the sphere.
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Jill Y
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Kathryn S
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- I think it's a disgusting and disrespectful thing to do.
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Dale W
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- For Gods sake display the
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William C
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C B
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- Insanity to the nth degree! Display the sculpture!
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Chris S
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- Please honor those lost and their families by replacing the Sphere to it's former place at the MEMORIAL site.
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James S
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Jeanette D
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- All I can say is PLEASE Mayor Bloomberg!
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Mary Ann K
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Patrick J D
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Christine C
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