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
A 1mm shard of bone is not a loved one. It is absurd and bizarre to call for collecting every one of billions of tiny fragments and DNA testing them.
Thanks Tim for keeping this issue upfront.
Let it rest, it's over.
How many bodies have been installed in these unsearched areas recently by the mob ?
We don't need to recover all the remains, this is just another Dem talking point to say those in charge (GOP) are stupid hacks. But i totally agree with the monument, (It'll never happen.) but you are right, it should say what the ******s did.
AMEN!
Thank you for your post and doing a tough job well. Your right as usual.
Souls have left this earth.
You should seek clarification with a person/clerk/priest.
Trust me I have had legitimate swords but I could only move on when I dropped them. No one wanted to fight.
Meanwhile have you ever watched All Good Dogs go to Heaven in Spanish on a 61 inch HDTV?
Very soothing for the soul.
I recommend you go to Holy Confession to find some solice and quiet time.
Perservere my freind.
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It is a disgrace to the memory of the dead that five years after The Towers were "dastardly and deliberately attacked," we're still talking about recovery and rebuilding.
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