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The impact on the city has been far greater than the loss of life, and I don't want to sound like I don't care here, but in terms of the sheer number of people who could work in the twin towers, the number of extra jobs it created in the area and the way it made manhatten look (from the day I first saw NYC on TV they existed - they made NYC instantly recognisable to anyone around the world) they need to be rebuilt.
Saying that to rebuild them would attract future terrorist attacks is insane paranoia. Accept the fact that terrorism happens. I live in London, the Irish Republic Army have been bombing our city for over 25 years. In the 80's (or early 90's, I forget) a huge truck bomb took the side off a building here much like the Oklahoma city bombing. We rebuilt, got on with our lives. We didn't forget. But to rebuild these buildings after people died and the city was totally shook up and disrupted was to defiantly say that these people would not affect our daily lives "we will not be slaves":
Our country was built on a poem by James Thompson. It lifts me to read it,
When Britain first, at heaven's command,
Arose from out the azure main;
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian Angels sung this strain:
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves.
The nations, not so blest as thee,
Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall:
While thou shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.
Still more majestic shalt thou rise,
More dreadful, from each foreign stroke:
As the loud blast that tears the skies,
Serves but to root thy native oak.
Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame:
All their attempts to bend thee down,
Will but arouse thy generous flame;
But work their woe, and thy renown.
To thee belongs the rural reign;
Thy cities shall with commerce shine:
All thine shall be the subject main,
And every shore it circles thine.
The Muses, still with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair:
Blest isle! with matchless beauty crowned,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.
It basically refers to the fact that a strong nation will be attacked but it should make you stronger. I think America should rebuild the towers bigger, better and safer than before to show the nations "not as blessed as thee" who have fallen to tyrants that "Still more majestic shalt thou rise".
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