He added that the group did not have enough money or space on the memorial to commemorate them all.

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The master plan that was eventually selected, by Daniel Libeskind, split the difference, arranging a number of office towers around a memorial space occupying the footprint of the Twin Towers.

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The original plan involved moving the war memorial in the Market Place to allow more space for remembrance services, and removing and replacing the existing trees - said to be either diseased or causing root damage - with 25 new ones.

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The backlash in the streets started Tuesday morning, several hours before more than 25, 000 largely peaceful marchers headed from a union-backed rally at Memorial Stadium, near the Space Needle, toward the shops and hotels of downtown.

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Mr Libeskind, who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin, would like to keep much of the gaping hole left at the World Trade Center site for space for an eventual memorial.

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LifeCare, the long-term acute care facility that rented space at Memorial, also prepared a statement for CNN.

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Richard Walters, director of Salisbury Vision, said the memorial was being relocated to make the area a "more flexible space".

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The idea of fractured space is also taken up by Gesine Weinmiller, whose proposed memorial has 18 blocks which appear as a fragmented Star of David when viewed from a certain angle.

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Twenty-four of the dead had been patients of an acute care facility known as LifeCare that rented space inside Memorial.

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