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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Kristy
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Janet C
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Mary Jean H
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Adele M
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Katherine R
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- mother of Scott Rohner
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sharon p
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Valerie G
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- Sister of Rescue Firefighter Thomas Gambino, Jr.
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Carol E
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- It is a Must the Sphere must be brought back home,,,,,The trees will die, the Sphere will Live forever in the Empty Skies where 3,000 People lost their Youn lives,,,,,No One can deny the families and future generation the History that this Memorial deserves....
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ROGER & CAROL W
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- LETS SAVE THE SPHERE
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Stanley E
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- IT MUST be back where it belongs, It was only on a Loan to the park....BRING IT HOME
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Virginia H
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Patricia and James T
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- Let history prevail, mr mayor !!!
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mike
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Ralph s
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Richard P
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- Just another pompous move by bloomberg
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Judy S
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Clifton s
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John C
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Neil D
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laurie v
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- put the sphere at GZ
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Michele M
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James S
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- put the Sphere where it belongs
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Peter J. L
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Patty C
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Lynne San P
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noelle
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Stuart G
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John B. L
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- This sphere is a constant remembrance of that terrible day
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Hillary H
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ANNETTE P
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- IT IS PART OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GONE
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Kathleen H
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Dr. Richard L. Levenson, J
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- Save the WTC Sphere!!!
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Larry Calhoun Prospect C
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- let's do whats right
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Chris B
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Raymond J M
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- pleasw have "The Sphere" returned to it's rightfull place
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sandra d
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- Shame.. It is important for those who visit to see at one thing in tact .
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Marianne C
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Cathy M
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Lynn M
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Deborah C
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- God Bless America!
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Denise L
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- please make the sphere part of the memorial
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Ann d
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- it should be returned to its home.
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Ellen B. D
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Scott Jules S
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- We have all been deeply disappointed in selection of memorial. Please do not remove the last vestiges of the 'real' memorial to what was done there. I think we all thought some part of the leaning faзades would be incorporated as the memorial. We watched as grown men cried when the last pieces of them were removed. They reflected both the horror of what had happened there and the courage it took to work under those leaning faзades we all thought would come crashing down on us. The sphere is all that remains to memorialize the great losses, the horrors and the magnificence of the human spirit to rescue others.
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Kimberly B
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Rebecca E. S
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Robert F
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