If they call it the Freedom Tower, the name will either be ignored (like "Avenue of the Americas"), or it'll metamorphose into a place name that has no further significance. Only New Yorkers can be stumped by asking whose statue stands in Columbus Circle. Anyone else will say "Let me guess -- Columbus, right?" But surprisingly often, New Yorkers won't know, because for them "Columbus Circle" is a place name that doesn't refer to anything but itself.

I used to live on Union Street in Brooklyn, a few blocks down from Grand Army Plaza. Quite a few of my neighbors knew when our neighborhood had been built; and of those, most were aware that Grand Army Plaza is a monument to the Civil War. However, I doubt that more than a handful of them ever connected "Union" with historical events. It was just Union Street. Same went for other streets in the area: Garfield, Douglass, President, etc.

Jingoism is no match for our species' short attention span.