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
Let's spend an extra $40 billion to make sure we got every piece of tissue ....
Wouldn't cost anywhere near that. Oh, BTW, what we want them to do they will have to do sooner or later. Only we'd like them to do it sooner, while the possibility of remains being identified is still possible.
I'm glad you are happy.
Excellent idea, Dr. Scarpetta. On the memorial should be a plaque telling exactly who perpetrated this barbarity...Muslims!
Arlington was for decades a family home; Gen. Meigs turned its front yard into a cemetery to make sure the home's owners - the Lees - could never live there again.
You sound like a bed wetting liberal to be concerned about such an idiotic request.
You sound like a ******* idoit. Fill in the blank, seven letters.
You are exposed. Cya, wouldn't want to be ya ..
I thought you were dead. There must have been no heaven.
Happy about what?
You said you were gay. I am glad you are happy.
I wonder where all the ghosts stories are from that area?
And the fight does go on: 70 Taliban Killed in Afghanistan Raids.
And it will go on. The Democrats and the media-industrial complex may seize the government and withdraw our troops, in a depraved attempt to repeat their Vietnam triumph. It won't work this time, because many Americans (and more than a few others) will fight on regardless of what emanates from an enemy occupied Capitol and White House.
When I die. Walk over my bones and keep living. Period.
I hope that our Capitol and especially our White is not occupied by the internal enemies you speak of.
...White House...
Not quite the same - that was relatively undeveloped land, a plantation, originally set aside for the specific purpose of a national cemetery for dead servicemen of the Civil War.
The World Trade Center was an urban site of an attack. Should London have refused to rebuild the urban areas devastated by the bombings of the Germans? I'm sure not all of the remains were recovered from those collapsed buildings.
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