[motexva]

It would be completely inappropriate to build on the same lot. This is the site of people's graves, a battlefield like Bull Run or Gettysburg. Minimal construction is allowed on these sites and the WTC site should be set aside as a plaza or park.

Rebuild the WTC if you must (IMO, the age of the mega skyscraper was finished on Tuesday) but the lot must be preserved as a memorial to the victims and their families. I believe this is already being discussed by state, city and federal officials.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Why is it that we love to celebrate our defeats? If you go to Pearl Harbor, you will see the beautiful monument to the USS ARIZONA. Certainly a symbol of our greatest military defeat up until 1941. Next to it is anchored the USS MISSOURI , on whose deck the unconditional surrender of Japan was signed. This proud ship is kept there temporarily, supported by private gifts. Why is the DEFEAT more worth memorializing than the ultimate VICTORY??

This is a serious question.

[deadrock]

It is not a grave site. With that thinking, London would have been one great big memorial.

I'm sure most if not all of the victims' relatives would like the towers rebuilt. What finer momument to all that have lost their lives.

[Euro-American Scum]

It would be completely inappropriate to build on the same lot. This is the site of people's graves, a battlefield like Bull Run or Gettysburg.

Normally I would agree with you. But I think it is imperative that the Center be rebuilt, and exactly where it once stood.

Memorials are all very fine. We've got the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. And I would favor something similar to it in WTC Plaza.

But to leave a gaping hole in the ground -- a smoldering ruin -- as a shrine to the dead would be equivalent to leaving the destroyed and sunken battleships in Pearl Harbor as a monument to the casualties there.

The Center must be rebuilt, because a renewed WTC would be a definitive statement of resurgence. And that would be the best memorial to the dead I can think of.