Posted on 10/23/2006 7:31:04 AM PDT by XR7
NEW YORK — Searchers found more bones believed to belong to Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack victims Sunday in manholes and utility areas that apparently were overlooked years ago.
Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler, who is overseeing the recovery effort, also said search officials had identified 12 additional underground areas that will be examined in coming days.
Utility and city officials have excavated about five underground areas, yielding more than 100 pieces of human remains, since construction workers discovered bones earlier in the week in a manhole excavated as part of work on a transit hub.
The medical examiner's office said 18 pieces of remains were found Sunday. The bones found thus far range from tiny fragments to recognizable bones from skulls, torsos, feet and hands.
"They will go through every grain, every piece of material carefully, and sift through it," Skyler said.
The underground pockets are along the western edge of the 16-acre lower Manhattan site, underneath a service road built in March 2002 to free up traffic on a major thruway that had been closed since the Sept. 11 attack.
When the road was built, some below-ground cavities that had been used for utility and infrastructure purposes were paved over without being searched for remains.
Skyler said the city will focus on finding remains before it reviews how the initial search was handled. He said construction at Ground Zero did not need to be halted to accommodate the search but that officials would address the need if it arises.
Some families called for the rebuilding to stop until the recovery is finished.
"Their actions say remains are not a priority, they're secondary to the rebuilding," said Charles Wolf, who lost his wife and has never received any of her identified remains...
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And how ludicrous that the families are claiming that there as a rush to rebuild. Oh really???????????????????????That's why there's still nothing but a hole in the ground????????????? The site has been rebuilt but us peasants just can't see it??????????
I'm very sympathetic to the families but this is ridiculous.
Logic 101: The recovery effort failed to find any more remains. The rebuilding effort is uncovering remains. Why in the world should we stop the rebuilding effort and return to a recovery effort to find more remains?
They rebuilt Europe after WWII with thousands still missing.
None of this surprises me. We had planes hit buildings and reduce them to ash and rubble and we have relatives that will never get what they want - their loved ones remains.
And, how about justice? Seems everyone's forgotten what the hell we are fighting a war about.
What are you talking about? I didn't even mention what we are fighting for - I merely made the point that you can not blow up nearly 3000 people and expect to find their bodies - or even fragments - which is what some families want. The families shouldn't be getting mad at the thousands that searched for years for even a bone fragment, but get mad at the people that blew them up.
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