Steel column installed for WTC tower

[BlueStater]

Does "Freedom Tower" HAVE to be the name of the building? Bleh.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061219/ap_on_re_us/attacks_freedom_tower

By AMY WESTFELDT, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 51 minutes ago

NEW YORK - The first 25-ton steel column for the new Freedom Tower was installed Tuesday at ground zero, another milestone in prolonged efforts to build a new office tower to replace the World Trade Center.

The 31-foot high white steel column, painted with an American flag and the words "Freedom Tower," was picked up by a crane and set into place on the southern edge of the planned 1,776-foot building. Politicians and workers at the site cheered as the column was installed shortly after 11:30 a.m.

"Today the steel rises, the Freedom Tower rises from the ashes of Sept. 11, and the people of New York and the people of American can be proud," said Gov. George Pataki. A second column, about a foot taller and covered with signatures from steelworkers and politicians in Virginia, was installed a short time later.

Officials hoped to raise a third column later Tuesday.

[valerief]

1. In 2 years it'll be commemorated as the Bush Freedom Tower and

no one will want to work there.

[0rganism]

2. Too bad it won't be called the "Free Bush Tower"

That would bring in the crowds, for sure.

[Turbineguy]

3. I haven't been following this

was it originally called "French Tower"?:sarcasm:

[yellowcanine]

4. How about the "While Bush Slept Tower". Just to remind people for all time WHY

9/11 was allowed to happen.

[SpiralHawk]

8. The "While Bush Diddled and read 'My Pet Goat' Tower"

Bush went massively AWOL on 9/11 -- and the corporate media has attempted to cover up the obvious ever since.

No wonder the internets have surpassed the Corporate Media as the number 1 source for news.

People are not as stupid as the blow-dry news readers assume.

We KNOW how Bush and the republicons failed America on 9/11.

We don't need no stinkin corporate blow-dry news readers to try and cover it up, either.

[Contrite]

5. Good to read that Spitzer is questioning its economic viability.

Whatever that means?

[TomClash]

6. White Elephant nt

[dbt]

7. Perhaps this one will not melt at room temperature.

:evilgrin:
dbt
Remember New Orleans

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. Maybe we can modify the design

and pillory ** on it, we can call it the "Freedom from Dubya Tower"