Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:28:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Louis Epstein
Subject: WTC Rebuilding #339:New Year,New Towers,But Not Here!


My apologies for leaving the Subject line of what was of course
WTC Rebuilding #338 blank.I continue to archive older mailings at
http://www.put.com/wtc/archive.html as part of the WTCRM resource page
http://www.put.com/wtc/ which is updated periodically.

I note that Downtown Express (linked at the WTCRM page) has had
another debate in its "Talking Point" section between Dave Stanke
(not exactly a pro-Towers man) and megamemorialists...pro-rebuilding
comments can be posted in their website.

Since my last mailing the dedication festivities for the new
World's Tallest Building in Taipei have been completed.It's open
for business and people can take elevators up to real floors far
higher than any of Libeskind's proposed roofs.

Today Comcast announced plans for its new headquarters which will
be the tallest building in Philadelphia at 975 feet.In the announcement
they tell how proud they are to be in Philadelphia,they refused to
move to New York as part of their acquisition of AT&T Broadband despite
nearly losing the deal.Obviously the desire to be in a "signature"
building is FAR from dead,for all the moaning about targets.

Also in recent days we've learned the full extent of the catastrophe
that struck the Indian Ocean...a natural cataclysm that dwarfs manmade
power (the earthquake is said to have had the power of well over a
million Hiroshima bombs).Former Presidents who were given honorary
status in promoting fundraising for the Arad memorial are taking an
active role in raising money for humanitarian relief for the affected
countries.

I do hope that potential contributors will see it as a more deserving
cause to restore livelihoods to those whose families and homes have
been devastated by a cataclysm of epochal proportions,than to pay for
the construction of a symbolic open wound setting in stone the unholy
work of a gang of murderers.

Never give up!

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.