On 9/11 we were attacked by cowardly enemies who hate everything that our nation stands for. They hate our freedom, our innovative spirit and our good will. They label us imperialists who wish only to attack Islam and Muslim nations. What is our answer as a nation? We take 7.5 tons of steel from Ground Zero and use our innovative spirit to meld debris taken from the ashes of destruction into a new warship.

Imagine the message if we used the steel to forge a new school, a center for religious tolerance or, dare I say, a mosque in New York. Imagine the cognitive dissonance it would create in the minds of those who hate us if we had built a mosque with the very steel from a building destroyed by those who think we as a nation hate Islam.

WARREN ZINN, Miami Beach

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