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1. HOW ELSE YOU CAN HELP:                                          
.      Contact: New York State Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Also Lower Manhatten Development Corp. (When sending an email be sure to include your name and address.)
Look at  the sample messages as a guide, or write it as is:
2. CONTACT INFORMATION:

Governor George Pataki Executive Chamber

State Capitol

Albany, NY 12224

518-474-8390

www.state.ny.us

Governor James E. McGreevey

P.O. Box 001

Trenton, NJ  08625

www.state.nj.us/governor

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton    

476 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 2051

Fax: 202-228-0280

Senator Charles Schumer

757 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10017

Fax: 202-228-3027

www.senate.gov/~shumer

Mayor Michael Bloomberg

City Hall

New York, NY 10007

Fax: 212-788-2460

http://nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html

FDNY Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta,

http://www.ci.nyc.us/html/fdny/html/home2.html

NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly

http://www.ci.nyc.us/htnl/nydp/home.html

Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC)

Chairman John Whitehead

One Liberty Plaza, 20^th Floor

New York, NY 10006

Fax: 212-962-2431

acontini@empire.state.ny.us

www.renewnyc.com

3.     Follow up is critical: Contact the Governor and Mayor once a week,
 or at least every two weeks, until our goal is achieved. Let them know you
 are (we are) determined.

4.     Talk it up: Everywhere you go, talk to people about the memorial. Make
them think about it. They in turn will talk it up with others. Always have
available copies of this Action
 
For more information please go to:
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Sample Letter

Mr. John Whitehead
Chairman
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
One Liberty Plaza
New York, NY 10006

Dear Mr. Whitehead:

I oppose the recent decision by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) to list all the names of those who died at the World Trade Center on September 11 without any recognition of the uniformed rescue workers as such. I write to encourage the LMDC to properly identify the rescue workers who made the ultimate sacrifice.

The LMDC explains their intent is to “honor the loss of life equally and the contributions of all without establishing any hierarchies.” I do not understand how properly recognizing a rescue worker as a rescue worker establishes a rank or hierarchy over the civilians killed at the World Trade Center.  For example, many of the spontaneous memorials that sprang up around the city identified those lost by profession or why they were at the World Trade Center. There was no perception of rank or hierarchy toward anyone, whether rescue worker, bond trader, or food server.  The tragedy, the heroism, the loss and sacrifice were appreciated equally.

It is the obligation of any memorial to tell the truth and to inspire visitors to learn of the events detailed. A generic listing of the victims’ names will fail to do either.  How and why the people at the World Trade Center died, and how those who responded to the call of duty served country and humanity must be faithfully memorialized. Their loss and sacrifice obliges us to properly remember and honor them.

Please keep in mind that if there is no identification of the rescue workers as such, it may be that the only people remembered for sacrificing themselves that day would be, horribly, the terrorists.




Very truly yours,

Sample Message:

 Please have erected at the World Trade Center a
Firefighters’  Memorial, that list the name, rank, badge number and
company of all the firefighters who gave their lives on 9/11/01, as requested by the Emerald Society, FDNY. I also request that the PAPD, NYPD and EMS be memorialized equally.

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