They've never justified the need for this extra platform. The priority is the commercial, and then the history is secondary.

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

Today is a very sad day for America.

They fail to meet our major criteria, which was maximum access and preservation of that bedrock area.

We are not opposed to the rebuilding moving forward. We just don't want it to move forward and the physical remains of the footprints to be destroyed in that process.