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I am proposing an appropriate sized 150-foot giant flagpole with a 30 × 60-foot flag be installed at Ground Zero / Freedom Tower as a long-overdue tribute to those lost on September 11, 2001, and to the sacrifice of first responders, serving as a visible symbol of strength, unity, and resilience. This memory should be honored every day, not only on anniversaries, and we should never be ashamed to display our flag proudly.
Reading Brian Laline’s recent newsletter, “When Staten Island was idyllic,” I was surprised that the writer felt Staten Island could never be what it once was. I disagree. Mr. Laline reminds us that we are, “drifting back to the days when lawlessness was a thing and no one thought it could be stopped.” We can stop it. We must stop it! We did it once when we elected Republicans Rudy Guiliani as mayor and George Pataki as governor, and we can do it again.
With the censorship and cancel culture running through this country, too many Americans are afraid to speak up against tyranny or to even question a narrative. We’ve lost track of how many times we’ve been thanked for doing what we do, and then told by that same person that THEY aren’t speaking out in public because they will lose clients, followers, donors, or relationships. We hope every one of these people soon understands the cost of their silence.
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