Statue Of Liberty's Crown Reopening

American Voices • Local • ISSUE 45•20 • May 14, 2009

Beginning July 4, the crown of the Statue of Liberty will be open to the public for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001. What do you think?

“Lady Liberty is our greatest symbol for freedom, so hopefully they’ll have rigorous racial profiling to ensure her safety."”
Paul Holtzman –
Insulation Packer
“I’m pleased visitors can once again laugh uproariously at the balls joke I scrawled up there during my seventh-grade field trip.””
Max Foner –
Circuit Board Etcher
“They closed the Statue of Liberty on Sept. 11? Did anything good happen on that day?”
Claudia Bunning –
Visual-Information Specialist

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