15 years after the most deadliest attack in human history, the 9/11 terrorism attack that shocked the World, the attack almost crumbled New york city, the rest of America and the World economically, as business and activities were in complete shut down for days. The attack was so devastating and destructive that building six blocks away was affected and the area of the attack was nick named 'Ground Zero'.
But this year marks 15years after the attack, the completion of One Trade Center and the on going contruction of the Second World Trade center into a more sophisticated building shows the victory over terrorism, It shows the sealed victory of America as a symbol of light over terrorism as a symbol of darkness.
Soon after the September 11 attacks, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Governor George Pataki, and President George W. Bush
vowed to rebuild the World Trade Center site. On the day of the
attacks, Giuliani proclaimed, "We will rebuild. We're going to come out
of this stronger than before, politically stronger, economically
stronger. The skyline will be made whole again.
During a visit to the site on September 14, 2001, Bush spoke to a crowd
of cleanup workers through a megaphone. An individual in the crowd
shouted, "I can't hear you," to which Bush replied, "I can hear you. The
rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings
down will hear all of us soon
The immediate response from World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein
was that "it would be the tragedy of tragedies not to rebuild this part
of New York. It would give the terrorists the victory they seek
Larry Silverstein is majorly responsible in achieving this great feat, he his the unseen hero of the battle against terrorism in the world. After surviving the attack himself by coincidentally not being in the building the day of the attack, Larry Silverstein has took it as a personal endeavor to see the World Trade Center reconstructed. He fought all the legal battles posing as hindrance in reconstructing the building, and always reminds Americans why the building needs to be reconstructed.
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