Workers Find Body Parts Amid Ruins

AP | 10/26/01 | TOM HAYS Associated Press Writer

[monkeywrench]

"The next time anyone complains about busses, mosques, and civilians being bombed in Afghanistan show them this thread." The media are trying hard to write the history of this their way. The internet is taking that power away from them.

[mamaduck]

ditto bump

[headsonpikes]

ditto ditto bump.

[WIladyconservative]

Remembrance bump

[wtc911]

All true. My son and I both worked the pit on the second day. When we got home we realized that the hard dust that caked our boots contained significant levels of human ash. I don't know what to do with mine. I won't wear them. I won't wash them off. They just sit in the basement and probably will until I'm gone.

[DCPatriot]

"...Oh my, that one caught in my throat."

The description of the smell of death caught in mine

[GregB]

Everyday i think of the pictures of people falling to their deaths. It keeps me focused on the task at hand,even though i am just another person who was not there.I want to pick up a gun and head overseas. I AM READY TO GO!!!!!!!!

[IronJack]

Good God, what grisly duty! It makes Graves Registration look like a day at Coney Island. Seriously, the military parallel is apt. These people are burying soldiers killed in the line of duty by an enemy bombardment.

Nobody can tell me that Sept. 11 wasn't an act of war. Well, carpet riders, you wanted war, you got it.

[Don Joe]

"Fresh Kills ... its name taken from the Dutch words for fresh stream"

Chillingly accurate in English too. What tragic irony.

[Axman4]

Kill them all(terroists), let God sort them out.

[Sueann]

I'm sorry, but this was not a "tragedy"

This was a HYJACKING, FOLLOWED BY MASS MURDER!!!

[Axman4]

"terrorists", sorry, thought I was able to spell.

[VOA]

As Detective Darryl Hayes put it: ``If you're a human being, you're going to
feel some emotion. But you suck it up and deal with it.''

Bless the people doing this work.
I hope Providence helps them to cope with what they find and how they feel in the
years to come.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

It's the....

New York Massacre!

[NetSurfer]

Another absolutely tear-jerking tribute to the WTC victims.

I've seen a handful, and this is the only one I've bookmarked. WTC Tribute

Takes a bit to load, but you won't regret the wait. Sorry if it has already been linked. Some amazing images including a few of GWB.

[Dan Day]

And yet all that paper survived. It's the weirdest thing to think about. Two buildings and all those people basically vaporized, but there's paper artifacts to find. Paper all over the place on 9/11, not burning, while everything else was in flames.

Watch the videos of the collapse -- notice all the billowing white clouds jetting out the sides of the buildings even as they're falling.

It looks to me that when each floor pancaked, the air that used to be between the floors was forced out at high velocity (it *had* to, there was no where else for it to go, just as a large book dropped flat onto the floor will blow away any light object within several feet of it).

It not only forcibly blew out the dust from the collapse itself, but it surely must have taken with it anything in the offices that would have been liftable by a high wind, including huge amounts of papers and other light objects.

So I would expect an awful lot of paper to have been blown out the windows of the towers as they collapsed, only to flutter down to the surrounding streets, clear of the crushing collapse itself and subsequent fire.

[Rocko]

Bump.

[Thumper1960]

I know what you mean.

You can think of what they did, you can feel the tremble of rage shake your body, you can clench your teeth and fists, you can summon the deep gutteral howl of anger from deep within yourself.

Your only choice is to steel yourself and direct the desires for ultimate revenge to the future and this real war on a fanatical and demonic enemy.

As with the aftermath of WWII: Never again.