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I just heard on the radio that a Chineese company wants to rent space in that tower on the condition that it would not be called the freedom tower. so now it will be known as WTC 1 (its' address)
Well, it might as well, the US has been becoming less free for years and it's getting even lesser.
How can this be a serious poll when the last two answers are a tad in poor taste as to what happened on the site, and what some speculate was the original plan of the terrorists: to knock over the tower?
There's nothing wrong with the name 'Freedom Tower.' The main problem is that the word freedom is sitting on the edge of becoming nothing more than a buzzword. During the First World War, it was 'liberty.' Every time you turned around, it was Liberty this and Liberty that. Keep using a word that way and it starts to become meaningless.
My real concern is what the tower will look like--and I don't mean one of those "artist's conceptions." People forget that the World Trade Center was hardly universally loved when it went up. Quite the contrary, it was criticized for being ugly. Now, of course, people suspect you of treason if you say that, what with everyone waxing nostalgic for it. I just want to see the new edifice as something that will complement, even enhance the New York City skyline. Not something they threw up there just for the sake of having it built.
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