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.
7384 Signatures
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Cheryl C
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joseph r
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Len D
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Adam V
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- The Sphere belongs at Ground Zero.
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Caroline T
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Gene S
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- Shame on all of us for building the mosque on the Holly Ground!!!
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M. JoAnn W
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- "THE ONE WHO DOES NOT REMEMBER HISTORY IS BOUND TO LIVE THROUGH IT AGAIN" GEORGE SANTAYANA. Please do not "sanitize" 9/11.
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Joyce M. F
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- I agree with the petition wholeheartedly.
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Edward F. F
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- Return the sphere
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Renee M
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Rick D
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Steve T
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susan k
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- really??!
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John M
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- The suits should be quiet and the people heard
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Sam B
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sampeterson
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Gary B
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- It is just the reasonable thing to do.
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Gerald P
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Don A B
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- This sphere needs to be there. We actually should have just rebuilt the towers, 10 stories higher!!!
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Cathy G
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- Notify your friends of this petition America!
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Robert G
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- Michael Bloomberg, Who are you afraid of? Not Americans.
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ralph m
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David P
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frank p
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Thomas O
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Gerts Y
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- 9/11/2001 survivor
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Joseph D
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- This Is Hollowed Ground!
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Dominick G
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- It would be nice to see this sculpture returned to the WTC site along with the eternal flame; they BELONG there together at the site of the attacks, not miles downstream in Battery Park, and NOT in some storage location.
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Jahlil W
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Carrie C
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Jamalee C
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- We need a grim reminder of the killing of the innocent on 9-11!!!
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Pat F
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Dianne B
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David G
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- This piece of art is BEAUTIFUL! More-so damaged. This is proof even after a terrible attack, things can still stand strong, just like america after the attacks, we stood STRONG! Please put this sphere back where it belongs! AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER.
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William S
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Emily H
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Ray N
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Courtney H
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- I think the sphere should be part of the future of the world trade center site. It pains me to think of somthing so important to the memory of moving forward left behind.
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Kenyon H
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Susan M. B
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- The designers and those who reviewed the designs were remiss in not including this key element in the design. Its not too late.
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Winifred N
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- please find a way to include the sphere sculpture
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MARY B
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Michael M
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- Please return the sphere to its original home. America must never be allowed to forget what happened on that day. Tangible evidence such as the sphere and the steel cross give each of us a non-sanitized view of the past. That in itself is an important part in not forgetting the past.
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Nanette W
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- Would you move " The USS Arizona" from Pearl Harbor? We need the reminders of attacks on freedom so as to appreciate what we have as Americans. No where better to observe those reminders than at the site of the attacks.
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Joe B
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- this will show not only it survived but bring back old memories of the plaza in which it stood.
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Brian B
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- Hey Bloomberg WAKE UP
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Oscar
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- Not a family member of victims. But it should be returned to its original site.
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Linda L L
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- PUT IT BACK!
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Shannon V P
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Molly
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- God bless our troops
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