Posted on 10/29/2006 4:35:46 AM PST by Sergeant Tim
...and a few decided to just leave them there.
No matter what you have heard to the contrary, more than five years after 9/11, the Deutsche Bank building has not been fully searched. New York City's official spokespeople are playing word games and many in the media are their echo chambers. When the South Tower fell, massive amounts of debris fell on and into that building, leaving huge beams precariously hanging out over Cedar Street and a twenty floor gouge in the building's north face. When the first big crane approached nearby West and Liberty, the ground shook beneath it. They smartly backed off and engineers soon determined that the bathtub's walls adjacent West and Liberty Streets were unstable. If they had collapsed, the Hudson River might have flooded the Pit and much of Manhattan's rail lines, power grid, and water and sewer systems.
That did not stop the FDNY. They climbed inside the Deutsche Bank, crawled where they could, and conducted what all that I have spoken with described as a hands-on, visual inspection. While they were accustomed to moving within dangerous places, environmental tests showed extreme levels of toxins. On September 17, 2001, one day after the photo below was taken, they were ordered out. They cursed aloud, swore oaths to return, and repositioned.
When it was safer, heavy cranes pulled the steel from the building's facade and removed what they could reach from the outside. The building was draped with a heavy, transparent shroud to contain the materials inside and someone hung the sign in the photograph below. It was still there one year after 9/11.
The sign is gone now but not the sentiment. We will never forget the grunts of Ground Zero, those magnificent men and women who endured so much, knocked down that Pile, left no stone in the Pit unturned, and brought so many out to us. Their loyalty and love cost many of them their physical health; it cost none of them their honor.
Mayor Bloomberg has been conned. He has been persuaded to place in charge of the renewed search the same agencies that paved over the dead and callously left them there for five years.
Yet the grunts of Ground Zero have not forgotten the fallen or what they saw down there. If you were there and, like a growing list of witnesses, can provide information that will help bring the fallen from that place, please email me, Tim Sumner, at admin@911familiesforamerica.org
I also know the meaning of the word 'honor' and whether we talk on or off the record will be entirely up to you.
Author's note: Please pass the word about this article, bookmark Take Back the Memorial.org and check in there often yourself for updates. -- Tim Sumner, a.k.a. Sergeant Tim
Me neither, and I wish they would just shut up already. Are we supposed to stop the world until every 1mm bone shard is found and DNA tested? Ridiculous. It was a horrible crime, but let's remember there are real men dying nearly every day in Iraq and Afghanistan to avenge these murders. Our priorities should be with them.
The terrorists who struck on 9-11 wanted to turn a big piece of the most lively city in the world into sad, desolate place. You are proposing we accede to their wishes.
A nation that loves the memory of its honored forebears more than the future of its children is past its prime. The only fitting memorial to the honorable men and women that died on September 11 is to rebuild lower Manhattan into a place that is more beautiful, vital and lively than it was before.
Sorry,can't agree with this.I don't know how familiar you are with Manhattan,but the "downtown" area (that is,the southern tip) is very,very valuable real estate...perhaps some of the most valuable in the world (except,perhaps,Tokyo and Hong Kong).The NYSE is located not far from Ground Zero as is City Hall and,I believe,the world headquarters of at least one or two of the biggest banks in the world (Chase and the Bank of New York) are headquartered there too.
Yes,some sort of memorial should be placed there...absolutely! But just as London,and Hiroshima were rebuilt after WWII,Ground Zero should also be rebuilt.
if dna find any remains that are from indians/dutch settlers etc.... are the lib/dems going to dig up all the streets of lower nyc?
the recovery work has been painstakingly thorough...it is has been of high cost both in mney and manhours....no one has intentionally tried to overlook anything....at some point in time...the search must come to an end...
then the real work of re-building begins.....all the pc suggestions of what should rise from the ruins stink....
the towers should be re-built.....exactly the same except stronger & taller...there should be a memorials to all the poor innocents murdered and the brave that gave their lives to save others.....
all of the other lib/dem pc crap (slavery/other conflicts)...should not be even considered....this was a national tragedy.....and that is what should be memorialized.....does the memorial in pearl harbor relfect on the US civil war?????
different situation - Arlington was meant to be a cemetary from its inception. If you turn ground zero into a cemetary, the terrorists have won. Those who died at ground zero are already memoralized in a cemetary elsewhere of their families choosing.
I agree with taking every REASONABLE measure to recover the human remains, then move on. The important part of everyone who died there is elsewhere (either heaven or hell), and recovering other bits of tissue will not change that.
I do not mean to sound calloused, I would say the same if I had family members killed at ground zero. We need to move on, but never forget.
to the disgruntled.....Your 15 minutes are over. move on.....
I feel bad for those who lost their lives, but I don't really care for the 9/11 profiteers.
Lower Manhattan is for the living. To turn the most economically vibrant - and most historically economically vibrant - part of New York into a graveyard would be to hand the terrorists exactly what they wanted. They WANTED to turn lower Manhattan into a graveyard, they HATED its life, its dynamism, its power, its creativity, its sizzle and its promise. HATED IT!
New York should not surrender to terrorists. Recover the remains to the safest extent possible (and for godsakes don't break the bathtub doing it) and return New York to its normal spectacular splendor, unique in the world, ensuring the terrorists' defeat.
The U.S. is full of grassy meadows, if you want one, go to one where they already are.
No surrendering to terrorists' will.
Fine. We should only build on spots where no one has ever died.
When I visit Antarctica, can I stay at your place?
Word.
I really have no sympathy at all. They have our cash now, so they need to pipe down and beat it. They got what they wanted - our moolah. They were all made into millionaires. If they have any grief left in them after their great consumer hog wallow, they can start focusing on the terrorists instead of how to milk us from some more and turn New York into a meadow, halt all life for the remaining of the living, and achieve what the terrorists really wanted, which was an end to New York.
Serach yes, but move on too. Every battlefield never gives up all it's dead.
Same comment (#33) to you as to 'Mark was here.'
Actually, it was meant to be the Custis family home -- Robert E. Lee married into the family, and came to own the estate. Arlington National Cemetery is where it is because the Union government basically decided to bury their dead in Lee's front yard, to insure that he'd never want to come back to his old home on a hilltop, where he could look across the river and see the Capitol on a clear day.
I live in Manhattan and I agree. New York was settled by traders and is still the World Trade Center.
Arlington is a consecrated military cemetary: you're comparing Big Apples and oranges.
We cannot let emotional attachment to the innocent victims blind us to the real reason the 'original' WTC was destroyed and why it must be rebuilt bigger, stronger and more successful.
Are you saying Congress did not pay the families in exchange for not suing? If so you are a complete buffoon, because that is exactly what happened. If one is willing to take the cash, one should be willing to proudly say "I chose the money in exchange for not suing, and I'll even show you the papers I signed!"
What is your problem with the truth? Why would you attack me? I did not blackmail anyone, I feel bad for those who died, and I sent money to help the victims via the Red Cross.
Your arrogance in thinking blackmailers can do no wrong is believable, considering the source.
Read his profile. Methinks somebody has an agenda here...
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